. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . < Q I-< < HH< en a: — 171 THE BATTLE IN THE LAVA BEDS. THE southwestern part of Oregon was formerly the homeof the powerful Indian nation of the Klamath. Alarge, narrow stretch of lakes, the Upper and Lower Kla-math, run nearly parallel to the mountains which reachever the frontier down to Calif


. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . < Q I-< < HH< en a: — 171 THE BATTLE IN THE LAVA BEDS. THE southwestern part of Oregon was formerly the homeof the powerful Indian nation of the Klamath. Alarge, narrow stretch of lakes, the Upper and Lower Kla-math, run nearly parallel to the mountains which reachever the frontier down to California. East of the lowerKiamath, divided by the frontier, lies a third lake, theTule, into which the Lost River empties its waters. In 1873 the Upper Klamath touched towards the north-east, the southwest corner of the Indian Reservation of theKlamaths, who counted among one of their offshoots thewarlike tribe of the Modocs. mi n/r n ii i ,i i n JOHN GREEN, Ihe Modocs, then under the leadership of Captain Jack, Major, ist r. s. cavairy, did not live on the reservation, but occupied a stretch of ^°™ ! ^^1™^^ Nov^^otn ms. , ^ ^ ^ Kji/iv^vyv^xi wj. Highest rank attained: , land about the Lost River. ^^ ^rig-Gen. This region was the original home of the Modocs. But after the governmentroad had been laid through the heart of their c


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