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Captain Jack
Modoc subchief
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role in Modoc War
- In Modoc and Klamath
…to the American military as Captain Jack, left the reservation. Federal efforts to induce this group’s return precipitated the Modoc War of 1872–73, in which about 80 warriors and their families retreated to the California Lava Beds, a land of complex ravines and caves; there they mounted an effective resistance.…
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