Post by Okwes on Dec 9, 2005 10:20:11 GMT -5
Document on Captain Jack landed by museum
www.heraldandnews.com/articles/2005/11/23/news/top_stories/top3.txt
Published November 23, 2005
By ANGELA TORRETTA
H&N Staff Writer
An antique document linked to the execution of Modoc American Indian
chief Captain Jack is now part of the Klamath County Museum collection.
Museum Manager Todd Kepple told the Klamath County Board of
Commissioners Tuesday that the museum learned last week that a Civil War
document from Fort Klamath was being auctioned at Cowan's Auction House
in Cincinnati.
The museum placed the winning bid on the document Thursday - $4,500.
When fees to Cowan's and shipping are paid the total cost will be
$5,440. The
money will be paid using leftover insurance money from a fire at the
Fort
Klamath museum and from a fund for purchasing documents the museum
keeps.
The document is from 1873, the year Chief Kintpuash, also known as
Captain
Jack, was executed.
Kepple said the museum will need to determine the authenticity of the
document, and plans on asking for assistance from the Klamath Tribes. If
it's
not authentic, the auction house has said it can be returned.
Kepple didn't reveal the exact nature of the document and said he didn't
know
yet where it originated.
The document will likely be kept at the main branch of the museum on
Main
Street.
The Modocs lived mostly around Lower Klamath Lake and Tule Lake, but
were forced onto a reservation north of Klamath Falls in the 1860s along
with
members of several other tribes. Captain Jack led a failed attempt to
regain
land in the Tule Lake area and was eventually captured and hanged for
the
murder of a U.S. army general during the Modoc War.
www.heraldandnews.com/articles/2005/11/23/news/top_stories/top3.txt
Published November 23, 2005
By ANGELA TORRETTA
H&N Staff Writer
An antique document linked to the execution of Modoc American Indian
chief Captain Jack is now part of the Klamath County Museum collection.
Museum Manager Todd Kepple told the Klamath County Board of
Commissioners Tuesday that the museum learned last week that a Civil War
document from Fort Klamath was being auctioned at Cowan's Auction House
in Cincinnati.
The museum placed the winning bid on the document Thursday - $4,500.
When fees to Cowan's and shipping are paid the total cost will be
$5,440. The
money will be paid using leftover insurance money from a fire at the
Fort
Klamath museum and from a fund for purchasing documents the museum
keeps.
The document is from 1873, the year Chief Kintpuash, also known as
Captain
Jack, was executed.
Kepple said the museum will need to determine the authenticity of the
document, and plans on asking for assistance from the Klamath Tribes. If
it's
not authentic, the auction house has said it can be returned.
Kepple didn't reveal the exact nature of the document and said he didn't
know
yet where it originated.
The document will likely be kept at the main branch of the museum on
Main
Street.
The Modocs lived mostly around Lower Klamath Lake and Tule Lake, but
were forced onto a reservation north of Klamath Falls in the 1860s along
with
members of several other tribes. Captain Jack led a failed attempt to
regain
land in the Tule Lake area and was eventually captured and hanged for
the
murder of a U.S. army general during the Modoc War.