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The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West
Contributor(s): Graybill, Andrew R. (Author)
ISBN: 0871408570     ISBN-13: 9780871408570
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
OUR PRICE:   $16.16  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2014
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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
 
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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.