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Oh What a Slaughter : Massacres in the American West, 1846-1890 by Larry McMurtry (2005, Hardcover)

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InOh What a Slaughter,Larry McMurtry has written a unique, brilliant, and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked -- and marred -- the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century, and which still provoke immense controversy today.Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres -- Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, but also Indians killing Americans, and, in the case of the hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857, Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers, including women and children.McMurtry's evocative descriptions of these events recall their full horror, and the deep, constant apprehension and dread endured by both pioneers and Indians. By modern standards the death tolls were often small -- Custer's famous defeat at Little Big Horn in 1876 was the only encounter to involve more than two hundred dead -- yet in the thinly populated West of that time, the violent extinction of a hundred people had a colossal impact on all sides. Though the perpetrators often went unpunished, many guilty and traumatized men felt compelled to tell and retell the horrors they had committed. From letters and diaries, McMurtry has created a moving and swiftly paced narrative, as memorable in its way as such classics as Evan S. Connell'sSon of the Morning Starand Dee Brown'sBury My Heart at Wounded Knee.In Larry McMurtry's own words:"I have visited all but one of these famous massacre sites -- the Sacramento River massacre of 1846 is so forgotten that its site near the northern California village of Vina can only be approximated. It is no surprise to report that none of the sites are exactly pleasant places to be, though the Camp Grant site north of Tucson does have a pretty community college nearby. In general, the taint that followed the terror still lingers and is still powerful enough to affect locals who happen to live nearby. None of the massacres were effectively covered up, though the Sacramento River massacre was overlooked for a very long time."But the lesson, if it is a lesson, is that blood -- in time, and, often, not that much time -- will out. In case after case the dead have managed to assert a surprising potency."The deep, constant apprehension, which neither the pioneers nor the Indians escaped, has, it seems to me, been too seldom factored in by historians of the settlement era, though certainly it saturates the diary-literature of the pioneers, particularly the diary-literature produced by frontier women, who were, of course, the likeliest candidates for rapine and kidnap."

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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
074325077x
ISBN-13
9780743250771
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038553409

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Book Title
OH What a Slaughter : Massacres in the American West, 1846-1890
Author
Larry McMurtry
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / 19th Century, General, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, United States / General
Publication Year
2005
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
192 Pages

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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
14 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
E78.W5m35 2005
Copyright Date
2005
Lccn
2005-051849
Dewey Decimal
973.04/97078
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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4 out of 5 stars
by mandy5596Mar 02, 2022
one great book
this book is great when you need to know the details for a specific western massacre especially for school
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by tuscaloosa30Dec 08, 2022
Good western history
Great stories written in an abbreviated manner. I would have liked a longer dealings with the Subject. There "slaughters" are mostly of the indigenous people.
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by TNzfTtzFQem@Del...Feb 04, 2009
Oh What a Slaughter by Larry McMurtry
I purchased this book because Larry McMurtry is one of my favorite authors.This book is interesting reading. It is a small book that can be read in a short period of time and carried in a purse or bag. Mr McMurtry tells of the difficult times the Native Americans had and the injustice they suffered by the American government. If you like to read history you will certainly enjoy Oh What a Slaughter.
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by ZwVAy4VESB6@Del...Nov 03, 2006
OH What A Slaughter
I think I have all of McMurty books , his novels are the best i have read. but I like more facts in doc. But I have still injoyed thim. CR sullins

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