Massacre of the Conestogas : on the trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County Jack Brubaker

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brubaker, John H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paxton Boys.

Conestoga Indians--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History--18th century.

Conestoga Indians.

Massacres--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History--18th century.

Massacres.

Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--18th century.

Lancaster County (Pa.).

Lancaster County (Pa.)--Race relations--History--18th century.

Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Pennsylvania.

Physical Description:

188 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : History Press, 2010.

Contents:

pt. 1. Telling the story

"Drive the heathen out of the land"

"Some hot headed ill advised persons"

"The same spirit & frantic rage"

"Persons of undoubted probity & veracity"

pt. 2. Retelling the story

"I never heard one word of it till it was just over"

"A mighty noise and hubbub"

"Shot, scalped, hacked, and cut to pieces"

"One of those youthful ebullitions of wrath"

"The innocent were destined to share the fate of the guilty"

"A zone of vicious racial violence"

pt. 3. Killers and abettors

"The most respectable of men"

"They had possession and would keep it"

"Eternal shame & reproach"

pt. 4. Death and reconciliation

"The remains of the victims of a terrible crime"

"Slaughter'd, kill'd, and cut off a whole tribe"

"Who was left to mourn for these people?"

Notes:

Bibliography: p. [177]-188.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

HSP Credit Line: For 0072_0018_001,The German Bleeds and Bears ye Furs (Bc 612 D32b); 0080_0054_001, Benjamin Franklin, A Narrative of the Late Massacres, in Lancaster County, of a Number of Indians, Friends of the Province, by Persons Unknown, with Some Observations on the Same, 1764, cover (Am 1764 Fra, HSP in LCP); 0080_0053_001, Thomas Barton,The Conduct of the Paxton-Men, Impartially represented: with some Remarks on the Narrative, 1764, cover (Am 1764 Bar, HSP in LCP); 0014_0124_001, Benjamin Franklin by Charles Willson Peale, Society Portrait Collection; 0014_0097_001, John Penn, Society Portrait Collection; 0269_0002-0003_001, Edward Shippen of Lancaster painting and silhouette, Thomas Balch Collection (Balch-Shippen vol. I, pg. 76 and vol. 3, pg. 56a).

ISBN:

9781609490614

1609490614

OCLC:

664840223