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21 Chapter 3 Volunteers from Rogue river Oregon make a trip through the Modoc country more killing done. I and by Ben Wright and his men the modoc people was driven from place to place after they left the mountains and went back to tuti lake after they massacreed the emagrants at wogakannee. they went to the mountains and lived in the mountains for nearly two years. they was the guilty parties. the modocs that did not take a hand in the massacre continued to live in the Valleys. the chief among them was schenkins father. the whites named the place where the massacree took place Bloody paint afterwards. the massacree at Bloody paint did not stop the white emagrant from coming through the modoc country. every little while there would be an Indian killed. it went on thus for some time nor more whites being killd in the modoc country. some emagrants being killd out in the Pitt Rier country right long. about the year of 1856 month of June about thirty five men started for little lake from rogue river oregon. they came out to keno ore and turnd and went down the klamath river and on to Yreka Cal. When they got to Yreka they stated they were hunting Indians and there was a man by the name of Ben