Slight marring on cover. Anecdotes from many parts of Oregon, including the Rogue Valley and Rogue Indians. Considerable coverage of the 1864 Treaty, establishment of the Klamath Reservation and events leading up to the Modoc War, including the Wright massacre in which 90 Indians were killed. Thompson was a colonel transferred from Governor Grover's staff to the command of Major General John F. Miller during the Modoc campaign. Thompson provides a detailed narrative of the Modoc war, including a description of the massacre of four Modoc men and many women and children who had surrendered and were being transported, and of McKay's contingent of 70 Wasco soldiers fighting against the Modocs in the Lava Beds. Thompson, who felt no sympathy for Modoc or other Indians, considered the Peace Commission a "long, dreary farce" and felt that Indians and settlers could not coexist.