Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West 1846-1890 by Larry McMurtry Paperback Book

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Rent Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West 1846-1890

Author: Larry McMurtry

Format: Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Tantor Media Inc

Published: Dec 1969

Genre: History - United States - 19th Century

Retail Price: $19.99

Synopsis

Master of the literary Western Larry McMurtry explores real-life Wild West events in this harrowing nonfiction chronicle of six separate occasions in which mass murder took place on the 19th-century American frontier. As in present-day massacres, fear and greed clearly served as major factors in sparking these events: the 1846 slaughter of Native Americans at Sacramento River; the 1857 Mormon/Paiute attack on prospective Utah settlers at Mountain Meadows, the 1864 massacre of Cheyenne in Sand Creek; the 1870 murder of Blackfeet Indians already ill with smallpox at Marias River; the 1871 deaths of Apache at Camp Grant, and the 1890 slaughter of Sioux at Wounded Knee.

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