The Modoc WarCommonwealth Club of California Book Award winner, Californiana category On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades long genocidal attack emblematic of the United States conquest of Native Americas peoples and lands. Robert Aquinas McNally tells the wrenching story of the Modoc War of 187273, one