Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this
unusual book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels
and movie Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on
violence in the West, embrace a wide range of approaches and
perspectives and challenge both traditional views of western
expansion and politically correct ideologies.
The Battle of the Little Big Horn, the Sand Creek Massacre, the
Battle of the Washita, and the Mountain Meadows Massacre are iconic
events that have been repeatedly described and analyzed, but the
interviews included in this volume offer new points of view. Other
events discussed here are little-known today, such as the Camp
Grant Massacre, in which Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and
Tohono O'odham Indians killed more than a hundred Pinal and
Aravaipa Apache men, women, and children.
In addition to specific events, the interviews cover broader
themes such as violence in early California; hostilities between
the frontier army and the Sioux, including the Santee Sioux Revolt
and Wounded Knee; and violence between European Americans and Great
Basin tribes, such as the Bear River Massacre. The scholars
interviewed include academic historians, public historians, an
anthropologist, and a journalist. The interview format provides
insights into the methodology and tools of historical research and
allows questions and speculations often absent from conventional,
written accounts. The scholars share their latest thoughts on
long-standing controversies, address the political uses often made
of history, and discuss the need to incorporate multiple
viewpoints.
Scholars and students of history and historiography will be
fascinated by the nuts-and-bolts information about the practice of
history revealed in these interviews. In addition, readers with
specific interests in the events discussed will gain much new
information and many fresh insights.
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