Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History

Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History
ISBN-10
1101159510
ISBN-13
9781101159514
Category
History
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2009-11-24
Publisher
Penguin
Author
Karl Jacoby

Description

A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history In April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O?odham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the past century the attack, which came to be known as the Camp Grant Massacre, has largely faded from memory. Now, drawing on oral histories, contemporary newspaper reports, and the participants? own accounts, prize-winning author Karl Jacoby brings this perplexing incident and tumultuous era to life to paint a sweeping panorama of the American Southwest?a world far more complex, diverse, and morally ambiguous than the traditional portrayals of the Old West.

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