Charcoal and blood : Italian immigrants in Eureka, Nevada, and the Fish Creek Massacre / Silvio Manno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manno, Silvio, 1954- author.

Series:

Wilbur S. Shepperson series in Nevada history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian Americans--Nevada--Eureka County--History--19th century.

Italian Americans.

Charcoal burners--Nevada--Eureka County--History--19th century.

Charcoal burners.

Charcoal industry--Nevada--Eureka County--History--19th century.

Charcoal industry.

Strikes and lockouts--Nevada--Eureka County.

Strikes and lockouts.

Massacres--Nevada--Eureka County.

Massacres.

Italians--Nevada--Eureka County--History--19th century.

Italians.

Immigrants--Nevada--Eureka County--History--19th century.

Immigrants.

History.

Nevada--Eureka County.

Physical Description:

xvi, 278 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Italian immigrants in Eureka, Nevada, and the Fish Creek Massacre

Place of Publication:

Reno, Nevada : University of Nevada Press, [2016]

Summary:

Charcoal and Blood is a detailed account of a heinous crime perpetrated on Italian immigrants engaged in the production of charcoal on Nevada's mining frontier at the close of the nineteenth century. On August 18, 1879, in a canyon near Fish Creek, outside Eureka, Nevada, five Italian charcoal burners were slain and six more were wounded, while fourteen were taken prisoner by a sheriff's posse. Through meticulous research on the event, relying on such primary sources as newspaper articles, author Silvio Manno provides the only comprehensive account of Eureka's charcoal crisis and what came to be known as the Fish Creek Massacre. This is a well-documented narrative history of an important instance of class and ethnic conflict in the West. Readers interested in Nevada history, Italian American history, frontier trade unionism, and mining in the West, Charcoal and Blood is a unique examination of an incident that occurred almost a century and a half ago and that has, until now, been largely overlooked. Book jacket.

Contents:

Italian emigration and the American frontier

Early Italians in Eureka, Nevada

The arrival of the Italian charcoal burners

The Eureka Charcoal Burners Protective Association (CBPA)

The charcoal crisis

Escalation of the charcoal troubles

The deployment of the militia

Veritas' denunciations

The Fish Creek shooting

The coroner's inquest

The trial of the charcoal burners

Italian diplomacy

Grand jury decision

Conclusion

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781943859009

1943859000

OCLC:

930257201