Download or read book War Drums Along the Rogue, Vol. 1 written by Daniel R. Edgerton and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-11 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of two thoroughly researched and well documented volumes on the epic struggle between the Native Americans of southern Oregon and northern California and the early frontiersmen.More than any other Indian war in the country, the Rogue River Indian War, 1851-56, has a record of glaring, unprecedented irregularities that have contributed to incorrect conclusions by many revisionist 20th-century historians. Newly cited primary sources are introduced, countering the accepted orthodoxy of this conflict. The war itself was a series of campaigns with short interludes of peace until full scale war broke out in October 1855 and concluded in June 1856.At the war's conclusion and again in September 1857, the leading chiefs admitted their culpability in inaugurating the various campaigns and war.They had met in annual war councils to exterminate the frontiersmen.