145 The West: The Modoc War Part I

We are moving into our season on the wars of the western
frontier. We are starting on the Pacific coast with the Modoc War
of 1872-73, California's only large post Civil War conflict with
a native people. This episode sets up the events of the war. The
Modoc homeland, in the far reaches of Northern California in the
Klamath Basin, was under pressure with waves of immigration that
occured in the aftermath of the Civil War. Tensions between
settlers and Modoc gradually rose through the 1850s and 1860s
that built resentment and pressure for action. Two treaties were
negotiated, one in California and the other in Oregon, causing
confusion and further tension. With disagreements over who had
the right to the land, it would set up the conditions for
conflict.


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