LEADER 04895nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910964405103321 005 20240515221548.0 010 $a9781457181399 010 $a1457181398 010 $a9781607322375 010 $a1607322374 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060815 035 $a(EBL)3039792 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000888139 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11487556 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000888139 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10847370 035 $a(PQKB)10153533 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039792 035 $a(OCoLC)851417427 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25012 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3039792 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10723520 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL910581 035 $a(Perlego)2031540 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060815 100 $a20130329d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSeason of terror $ethe Espinosas in central Colorado, March/October 1863 /$fCharles F. Price 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBoulder $cUniversity Press of Colorado$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 225 0$aTimberline books 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781607328049 311 08$a1607328046 311 08$a9781607322368 311 08$a1607322366 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"Alarming intelligence and intense excitement": first murders in the Pike's Peak country -- "Most horrible and fiendish murders": the bleeding of South Park begins -- "There has been considerable excitement": the First Colorado Cavalry steps in -- "The people are scared nearly to death here": the murderers strike at the vitals of South Park -- "Fallen into the hands of hard men in an evil hour": the lynching of Baxter -- "Glorious news! The mysterious murders unraveled at last": one of the slayers slain -- "Desperate and lawless bravos": the brothers Espinosa -- "Revenge for the infamies committed against our families": serial murder as vendetta -- "Malicious interference was the cause": the scapegoating of Captain E. Wayne Eaton -- "Times have become quiet again": panic recedes in South Park but murder moves elsewhere -- "Ready for any duty, untiring, and full of energy": Samuel F. Tappan takes up the hunt for the Espinosas -- "If this woman is found dead, tell the people the Espinosas of the conejos killed her": the attack on Philbrook and Dolores Sønches -- "I drew his head back over a fallen tree and cut it off": Tom Tobin ends the terror -- "The brightest success rewarded them for their toils": Tobin brings in the heads -- "Who is there to gather the history of this wretch?": the Espinosas remembered -- "Times with me have sadly changed": destinies. 330 8 $aSeason of Terror is the first book-length treatment of the little-known true story of the Espinosas-serial murderers with a mission to kill every Anglo in Civil War-era Colorado Territory-and the men who brought them down. For eight months during the spring and fall of 1863, brothers Felipe Nerio and Jose? Vivia?n Espinosa and their young nephew, Jose? Vincente, New Mexico-born Hispanos, killed and mutilated an estimated thirty-two victims before their rampage came to a bloody end. Their motives were obscure, although they were members of the Penitentes, a lay Catholic brotherhood devoted to self-torture in emulation of the sufferings of Christ, and some suppose they believed themselves inspired by the Virgin Mary to commit their slaughters. Until now, the story of their rampage has been recounted as lurid melodrama or ignored by academic historians. Featuring a fascinating array of frontier characters, Season of Terror exposes this neglected truth about Colorado's past and examines the ethnic, religious, political, military, and moral complexity of the controversy that began as a regional incident but eventually demanded the attention of President Lincoln. 410 0$aTimberline Books 606 $aSerial murders$zColorado$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMurder$zColorado$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSerial murderers$zColorado$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMurderers$zColorado$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zColorado 607 $aColorado$xHistory, Local$y19th century 607 $aColorado$xRace relations 615 0$aSerial murders$xHistory 615 0$aMurder$xHistory 615 0$aSerial murderers$xHistory 615 0$aMurderers$xHistory 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life 676 $a364.152/320922788 700 $aPrice$b Charles F.$f1938-$01806102 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910964405103321 996 $aSeason of terror$94355083 997 $aUNINA