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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819313303321

Autore

Fleisher Kass <1959->

Titolo

The Bear River Massacre and the making of history / / Kass Fleisher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004

ISBN

0-7914-8520-X

1-4237-3950-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Disciplina

973.7

Soggetti

Bear River Massacre, Idaho, 1863

Shoshoni Indians - Wars, 1863-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-333) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE AND THE MAKING OF HISTORY -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I: THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE -- 1. WHAT (WE THINK) HAPPENED -- PART II: THE MAKING OF HISTORY -- 2. HOW IT CAME TO ME -- 3. THE TRUTH TOUR -- 4. MADSEN -- 5. GRIFFIN -- 6. HANSEN -- 7. PARRY -- 8. WARNER -- 9. POLITICS -- PART III: CONCLUSIONS WITHOUT ENDS -- 10. TEN DIGRESSIONS ON WHAT'S WRONG: A POSTSCRIPT -- AFTERWORD -- WORKS CITED AND CONSULTED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores how a pivotal event in U.S. history--the killing of nearly 300 Shoshoni men, women, and children in 1863--has been contested, forgotten, and remembered.