"Modocs" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this was the year 1856. The Klamath Indians and the tribe afterwards known as the Modocs, of whom mention will be made later on in this work, were one and the same tribe; and up to this time they did not know what it was to be whipped. Besides there had been but little travel through this part of the country without experiencing ...
— Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains • William F. Drannan
... Modocs a wife who violated her husband's property rights in her "chastity," was disembowelled in public, as Bancroft informs us (I., 350). No wonder, that, as he adds, "adultery, being attended with so much danger, is comparatively rare, but among the unmarried, who have nothing to fear, ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck |
