Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West

di Cassandra Tate (Autore)

Sasquatch Books, 2020

Washington State Book Award Finalist A highly-readable, myth-busting history of the Whitman Massacre-a pivotal event in the history of the American West-that includes the often-missing Indian point of view In 1836, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, devout missionaries from upstate New York, established a Presbyterian mission on Cayuse Indian land near what is now the fashionable wine capital of Walla Walla, Washington. Eleven years later, a group of Cayuses killed the Whitmans and eleven others in what became known as the Whitman Massacre. The attack led to a war of retaliation against the Cayuse; the extension of federal control over the present-day states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming; and martyrdom for the Whitmans. Today, however, the Whitmans are more likely to be demonized as colonizers than revered as heroes. "[Tate] tells the Cayuse's side of the story with empathy and clarity . . . a meticulously researched book." -The Seattle Times

• Autore: Cassandra Tate
• Editore: Sasquatch Books
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 304 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• EAN: 9781632172501

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