Who is Captain Jack?
Paul Gordon
St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
Captain Jack, whose real name was Kintpuash, was a Modoc sub-chief who lived on the California-Oregon border. He apparently acquired his nickname from Yreka area miners due to the brass-buttoned military jacket he wore that soldiers had given him.
As whites began encroaching on Modoc lands, friction between the two groups heightened. A clash between the Modoc and the U.S. military broke out in 1872; men on both sides (as well
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