In “Haunted America,” Patricia Nelson Limerick takes a deeper look of the Modoc War of 1872-1873. In her patterns of writing she breaks down the war in forms of a better understanding. In each of her patterns she writes about the war in a narrative form and then in a present. Then she tries to convey her readers the about dilemmas and solutions that have came up in written history. And that it is important for one to have a better understandment of the past then to believe wrong interpretations that cause benightedness.
One of the most curious words that have been used to explain things is measure. What is the proper way of measuring judgments and compares? It is shown that numbers in the late twentieth century was the standard way of measuring everything. Writer that writes about massacres and battles usually wrestles with the problem of numbers. Trying to calc
When talked about who should have the achievements of the war and that “it is hard to find a way to tell the national story that does justice both to those who benefited from the conquest and to those who literally lost ground” (501 Limerick). Is it a right way to put the Whites in the center of American History and push the conquest of the Indians to the back of the picture?
It is told that the white pioneer women should be included in with the fighting and brutal of the War. Separation and segregation has been the pattern in writing both the histories of the Indian wars and of the white pioneer women. When historians write about the white pioneer wars they usually leave out the importance of the wars, the conquest that was down, and about the husbands. The hard part is recognizing the connection between the wars and the white women settlers who “were not direct