Anatomy of A Massacre: Bloody Point, 1852


Horse Mountain

Publication: Overland Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3

Author: Thomas Hunt

Date of Publication: September 1989

PDF File: Hunt-and-Ackerman-Anatomy-of-A-Massacre-Bloody-Point-1852.pdf

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Description


Reviews accounts of the Bloody Point Massacre of 1852, in which a band of Modoc Indians attacked a small group of emigrants at Tule Lake in Northern California, and was subsequently routed by a rescue party from Yreka. Speculates on the exact location of the massacre and reviews subsequent events leading to the Modoc War of 1872-73.