October 2017
“Spirit in the Rock” contributors at Seattle Public Library
Meet contributors to Spirit in the Rock, which tells the story of the fierce, bloody, and unjust 1873 Modoc War. The riveting narrative captures the conflict’s dramatic battles, betrayals, and devastating end. It also delves into underlying causes and secret schemes by the Applegate family and others to seize Modoc ancestral territory along what is now the California-Oregon border. The book's setting includes Klamath County. The event will be held in the Central Library's Microsoft Auditorium on level one. Parking…
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Kit Bakke at the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild Annual Conference
Kit Bakke, author of Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy will speak at the 2018 Pacific Northwest Historians Guild Conference. The conference theme, “From Armistice to Amazon: A Century of Transformations,” addresses the profound changes this region has experienced between 1918 and 2018. The conference is free. For more information, contact pacificnwhistoriansguild@gmail.com. The Pacific Northwest Historians Guild brings together scholars concerned with the study and dissemination of regional history. Founded in November 1980, the Guild fosters teaching and appreciation of Northwest…
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