The man behind the name
A leader the official record kept in the margins.
Kintpuash, called Captain Jack by the settlers and soldiers who hunted him, was a leader of the Modoc people. His name belongs to the Modoc War, to the lava beds and the Tule Lake country of the California and Oregon line, and to the exile of his people to Indian Territory, where they endured as the Modoc Nation of Oklahoma.
The novel Captain Jack & The Original Renegades retells that history as fiction grounded in fact, from inside Modoc memory rather than the interpretive-center version. It opens in 1852, in the reeds of Tule Lake, and follows the land's long memory into the present. This site keeps the record behind it.
