Bibliograph

The red and the white, a family saga of the American West, Andrew R. Graybill

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The red and the white, a family saga of the American West, Andrew R. Graybill

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-317) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The red and the white

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

840937635

Responsibility statement

Andrew R. Graybill

Sub title

a family saga of the American West

Summary

Award-winning western historian Andrew R. Graybill ... sheds light on the overlooked interracial Native-white relationships critical in the development of the trans-Mississippi West in this multigenerational saga. Beginning in 1844 with the marriage of Montana fur trader Malcolm Clarke and his Piegan Blackfeet bride, Coth-co-co-na, Graybill traces the family from the mid-nineteenth century, when such mixed marriages proliferated, to the first half of the twentieth, when Clarke's children and grandchildren often encountered virulent prejudice. At the center of Graybill's history is the virtually unexamined 1870 Marias Massacre, on a par with the more infamous slaughters at Sand Creek and Wounded Knee, an episode set in motion by the murder of Malcolm Clarke and in which Clarke's two sons rode with the Second U.S. Cavalry to kill their own blood relatives. -- Publisher website

Table Of Contents

Cutting Off Head Woman -- Four bears -- The man who stands alone with his gun -- The bird that comes home -- The man who talks not

Target audience

adult

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