Exterminate Them - Written Accounts of the Murder, Rape, and Enslavement of Native Americans During the California Goldrush (Paperback, New)

Images of the California Gold Rush ignite imaginations with visions of hearty minors clad in floppy felt hats, red flannel shirts, tattered Levis, and scuffed leather boots. Popular media depict miners as a rough-and-tumble lot who diligently worked the placers along scenic rushing rivers while living in roaring mining camps in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Trafzer and Hyer destroy this mythic image by offering a collection of original newspaper articles that describe in detail the murder, rape, and enslavement perpetrated by those who participated in the infamous gold rush. "It is a mercy to the Red Devils", wrote an editor of the Chico Courier: "to exterminate them". Newspaper accounts of the era depict both the barbarity and the nobility in human nature, but while some protested the inhumane treatment of Native Americans, they were not able to end the violence. Native Americans fought back, resisting the invasion, but they could not stop the tide of white miners and settlers. They became "strangers in a stolen land".

General

Imprint:	Michigan State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 1999
First published:	1999
Editors:	Clifford E. Trafzer • Joel R. Hyer
Authors:	Clifford E. Trafzer • Joel R. Hyer
Dimensions:	235 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	193
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-87013-501-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > 1500 to 1800 Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > History > American history > 1500 to 1800 Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-87013-501-5
Barcode:	9780870135019

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