Historical fiction · Cultural heritage
Captain Jack & The Original Renegades
"What if the story you were taught wasn't the whole story?"
Historical fiction rooted in real events, Indigenous memory, and the unfinished truths of the Modoc War. Set in the volcanic landscapes of the Klamath Basin, the novel follows Kintpuash — known to history as Captain Jack — and the Modoc people as they face displacement, broken treaties, and the slow violence of assimilation.
Drawing from archival records, oral tradition, and land-based memory, Delaney reconstructs a story long distorted by official accounts and retells it from where it never left: the ground itself. Through alternating timelines, a modern father and son walk the same land where history unfolded, and the word "renegade" comes to mean return rather than rebellion.
The land remembers. This book listens.
Published in partnership with EagleSpeaker.
