The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West Contributor(s): Graybill, Andrew R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0871408570 ISBN-13: 9780871408570 Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - History | Native American |
Dewey: 978.02 |
LCCN: 2013011167 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.65 lbs) 368 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: At dawn on January 23, 1870, four hundred men of the Second U.S. Cavalry attacked and butchered a Piegan camp near the Marias River in Montana in one of the worst slaughters of Indians by American military forces in U.S. history. Coming to avenge the murder of their father--a former fur-trader named Malcolm Clarke who had been killed four months earlier by their Piegan mother's cousin--Clarke 's own two sons joined the cavalry in a slaughter of many of their own relatives. In this groundbreaking work of American history, Andrew R. Graybill places the Marias Massacre within a larger, three-generation saga of the Clarke family, particularly illuminating the complex history of native-white intermarriage in the American Northwest. |
Contributor Bio(s): Graybill, Andrew R.: - Andrew R. Graybill is the director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies and chairman of the History Department at Southern Methodist University. He lives in Dallas, Texas. |