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Peter Burnett, Oregon pioneer and governor of California, had one
of the most impressive resumes of any early leaders in the American
West, yet failed at most of his pursuits. A former slaveholder, he
could never seem to get beyond his single-minded goal of banning
black people and other minorities from the West.
In 1887, more than thirty Chinese gold miners were massacred on the
Oregon side of Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America.
Massacred for Gold, the first authoritative account of the unsolved
crime, unearths the evidence that points to an improbable gang of
rustlers and schoolboys, one only fifteen, as the killers.
The crime was discovered weeks after it happened, but no charges
were brought for nearly a year, when gang member Frank Vaughan, son
of a well-known settler family, confessed and turned stateas
evidence. Six men and boys, all from northeastern Oregonas remote
Wallowa county, were chargedabut three fled, and the others were
found innocent by a jury that a witness admitted had little
interest in convicting anyone. A cover-up followed, and the crime
was all but forgotten for the next one hundred years, until a
county clerk in Wallowa County found hidden records in an unused
safe.
Massacred for Gold traces the authoras long personal journey to
expose details of the massacre and its aftermath and to understand
how one of the worst of the many crimes committed by whites against
Chinese laborers in the American West was for so long lost to
history.
Beneath the 24/7 national news cycle and argument over 'fake news,'
there is a layer of journalism that communities absolutely depend
upon. Grit and Ink offers a rare look inside the financial
struggles and family dynamic that has kept a Pacific Northwest
publishing group alive for more than a century. The newspapers of
the Aldrich-Forrester-Bedford-Brown family depict the histories of
towns like Pendleton, Astoria, John Day, Enterprise, and Long
Beach, Washington. Written by noted historian William Willingham,
Grit and Ink describes threats presented by the Ku Klux Klan, the
Great Astoria Fire of 1923, the Great Depression, the Aryan Nation,
the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation, the Digital
Revolution, and more.
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