Life Amongst the Modocs
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by Joaquin Miller
“Reading other accounts of this era from more conventional historians we get the feeling that we are standing at a safe distance, looking back upon stormy times. Life Amongst the Modocs, however, gives us the feeling of having entered the storm itself. Miller’s novel, with its unique mixture of fact and fiction, has such scope and, in its odd way, such profound truthfulness, that its equal cannot be found anywhere else in the literature of the west.” - From the Introduction by Malcolm Margolin.
“A powerfully felt narrative of survival and warfare in the Indian encampments of Northern California...which centers on that ideal of purity in wilderness, the great mountain.” - William Kittredge.
“Such pictures as these were unknown to our literature when they were written, and they stand unsurpassed today in the largeness of movement and their mass of light and shade.” - Hamlin Garland.
“ The publishers of Life Amongst the Modocs deserve the thanks of all those who are interested in the literature of the American West.” - Dee Brown
“Reading other accounts of this era from more conventional historians we get the feeling that we are standing at a safe distance, looking back upon stormy times. Life Amongst the Modocs, however, gives us the feeling of having entered the storm itself. Miller’s novel, with its unique mixture of fact and fiction, has such scope and, in its odd way, such profound truthfulness, that its equal cannot be found anywhere else in the literature of the west.” - From the Introduction by Malcolm Margolin.
“A powerfully felt narrative of survival and warfare in the Indian encampments of Northern California...which centers on that ideal of purity in wilderness, the great mountain.” - William Kittredge.
“Such pictures as these were unknown to our literature when they were written, and they stand unsurpassed today in the largeness of movement and their mass of light and shade.” - Hamlin Garland.
“ The publishers of Life Amongst the Modocs deserve the thanks of all those who are interested in the literature of the American West.” - Dee Brown
