Abstract
There is a large amount of historical detail in this story, and if I were to point out where fiction begins and history ends, and why I did it that way, I would have to write a preface larger than the book. For the reader. however, some guidelines are important. I followed two: (1) Testimony at the trial and messages, reports, and letters that appear in the story are taken from House Executive Document 122 of the 1st Session, 43rd Congress: Official Copies of Correspondence Relative to the War with the Modoc Indians (Serial Set 1607). (2) I have used that source plus additional historical and anthropological data to invent episodes, dramatize known incidents, and characterize participants.