95-13NC Late 1800's - Rough GoingThis scene took place in south-central Oregon only about 20 years after 4 of the region's notorious Modoc Indian leaders were hanged on October 3, 1873. The battle of the lava beds in southern Oregon/northern California near Klamath Falls, Oregon, ended the Modoc Indian war. The Army totaled up its casualties with a red face; the Modocs had lost 14 dead in the campaign, 4 hanged, and 1 suicide. The soldiers and white settlers' casualties were 168, of whom 83 were killed. The cost of the campaign was estimated at a half-million dollars.With hostilities ended in the area, this settler carried a rifle in the scabbard near him, not for protection necessarily, but for shooting game animals to supplement the family food supply. A Muledeer doe's ears can be seen above the sagebrush in the background… she evidently has a fawn in the vicinity. In this area it has been recorded that gold nuggets were found caught up in the roots of downed trees along streams, as shown in the foreground of this painting. This region produces Ponderosa Pine and Sugar Pine which provided early settlers with wood for their houses. Forty-niners made ample use of wood for flumes, sluice boxes, mine timbers, etc. Indians gathered and ate the large, sweet seeds of the Sugar Pine. Times were rough in the timbered areas during the settling of the west. We are thankful for the people who preceded us; whose hard work and diligence made our country what it is today. |
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