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Massacres II / produced, written and directed by Laura Verklan.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Wild West tech
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Camp Grant Massacre, Ariz., 1871.
- Goliad Massacre, Goliad, Tex., 1836.
- Massacres--West (U.S.)--19th century.
- Massacres.
- Technology--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
- Technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (45 min.).)
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : History Channel : A&E Television Networks ; [New York] : Distributed by New Video, c2005.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- Heavily armed, surrounded by a vast and unknown wilderness, and subject to attack from the people who had lived there for centuries, Western settlers often found themselves fighting for their lives ... examines four of the most brutal such episodes: the Camp Grant Massacre in Tucson, Arizona in April 1871, when 140 Apache men, women and children were slain in their sleep; the 1836 Goliad Massacre in Texas, when Mexican soldiers killed over 300 Texans; the Council House Massacre in San Antonio, where Comanches succumbed to a deadly volley of gunfire; and the Dragoon Springs Massacre in 1858 which saw stage company workers killed for unknown reasons.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a documentary for The History Channel series in 2005.
- OCLC:
- 677926483
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