Violent encounters : interviews on western massacres / Deborah and Jon Lawrence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawrence, Deborah.

Contributor:

Lawrence, Jon, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Wars--West (U.S.).

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Wars.

Indians of North America--Violence against--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.

Massacres--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.

Massacres.

Indians of North America--Interviews.

Territorial expansion.

History.

United States.

United States--Territorial expansion--History--19th century.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xiii, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2011]

Summary:

The authors interview nine experts on violence in the American West. Those interviewed include academic historians, National Park Service historians, an anthropologist, and a journalist. They challenge both the traditional patriotic view of Western expansion and politically correct ideologies on violent interethnic encounters in the 19th-century American West. The interview format allows questions and speculations and offers insight into the methods of historical research. The interviews offer new perspectives on well-known events such as the Wounded Knee Massacre, as well as less-known events such as the Camp Grant Massacre, in which whites, Mexicans, and Tohono O'odham Indians killed more than 100 Apache men, women, and children. The interviews also cover broad themes such as the political uses made of history. The book includes b&w historical photos and illustrations, plus b&w contemporary photos of sites, b&w maps, and b&w portraits of those interviewed. The book is for scholars and students of history and historiography. The authors have participated in the work of organizations dedicated to the preservation of National Historic Trails, and four of the interviews were published previously in journals of historical trail associations. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

The McComas Massacre : an interview with Marc Simmons

The captivity and return of Olive Oatman : an interview with Margot Mifflin

The Mountain Meadows Massacre : an interview with Will Bagley

The Camp Grant Massacre : an interview with Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh

Indians, emigrants, and the Army on the overland trails : an interview with Michael Tate

Destruction and survival of the California Indians : an interview with Albert Hurtado

The Sioux Wars : an interview with Robert Utley

The Cheyenne Wars : an interview with Jerome A. Greene

Violence over the Great Basin : an interview with Ned Blackhawk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780806141268

0806141263

OCLC:

676727064