The Bear River Massacre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bear River Massacre write by Darren Parry. This book was released on 2019-11-29. The Bear River Massacre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of the Bear River Massacre by the current Chief of the Northwestern Shoshone Band.
The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre
The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre write by Brigham D. Madsen. This book was released on 1985. The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Massacre at Bear River
Massacre at Bear River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Massacre at Bear River write by Rod Miller. This book was released on 2008. Massacre at Bear River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Although it has been largely ignored by historians, it was the war waged against the Shoshoni tribe that opened the book on Indian massacres in the West. The Shoshoni were victims of a bloodbath more extreme than that at Wounded Knee, and more deadly than the more famous slaughter at Sand Creek.
The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History
The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History write by Kass Fleisher. This book was released on 2004-02-01. The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At dawn on January 29, 1863, Union-affiliated troops under the command of Col. Patrick Connor were brought by Mormon guides to the banks of the Bear River, where, with the tacit approval of Abraham Lincoln, they attacked and slaughtered nearly three hundred Northwestern Shoshoni men, women, and children. Evidence suggests that, in the hours after the attack, the troops raped the surviving women—an act still denied by some historians and Shoshoni elders. In exploring why a seminal act of genocide is still virtually unknown to the U.S. public, Kass Fleisher chronicles the massacre itself, and investigates the National Park Service's proposal to create a National Historic Site to commemorate the massacre—but not the rape. When she finds herself arguing with a Shoshoni woman elder about whether the rape actually occurred, Fleisher is forced to confront her own role as a maker of this conflicted history, and to examine the legacy of white women "busybodies."
Blood on the Marias
Blood on the Marias - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood on the Marias write by Paul R. Wylie. This book was released on 2016-02-26. Blood on the Marias available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the morning of January 23, 1870, troops of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry attacked a Piegan Indian village on the Marias River in Montana Territory, killing many more than the army’s count of 173, most of them women, children, and old men. The village was afflicted with smallpox. Worse, it was the wrong encampment. Intended as a retaliation against Mountain Chief’s renegade band, the massacre sparked public outrage when news sources revealed that the battalion had attacked Heavy Runner’s innocent village—and that guides had told its inebriated commander, Major Eugene Baker, he was on the wrong trail, but he struck anyway. Remembered as one of the most heinous incidents of the Indian Wars, the Baker Massacre has often been overshadowed by the better-known Battle of the Little Bighorn and has never received full treatment until now. Author Paul R. Wylie plumbs the history of Euro-American involvement with the Piegans, who were members of the Blackfeet Confederacy. His research shows the tribe was trading furs for whiskey with the Hudson’s Bay Company before Meriwether Lewis encountered them in 1806. As American fur traders and trappers moved into the region, the U.S. government soon followed, making treaties it did not honor. When the gold rush started in the 1860s and the U.S. Army arrived, pressure from Montana citizens to control the Piegans and make the territory safe led Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip H. Sheridan to send Baker and the 2nd Cavalry, with tragic consequences. Although these generals sought to dictate press coverage thereafter, news of the cruelty of the killings appeared in the New York Times, which called the massacre “a more shocking affair than the sacking of Black Kettle’s camp on the Washita” two years earlier. While other scholars have written about the Baker Massacre in related contexts, Blood on the Marias gives this infamous event the definitive treatment it deserves. Baker’s inept command lit the spark of violence, but decades of tension between Piegans and whites set the stage for a brutal and too-often-forgotten incident.
