The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West

At dawn on January 23, 1870, four hundred men of the Second U.S. Cavalry attacked and butchered a Piegan camp near the Marias River in Montana in one of the worst slaughters of Indians by American military forces in U.S. history. Coming to avenge the murder of their father--a former fur-trader named Malcolm Clarke who had been killed four months earlier by their Piegan mother's cousin--Clarke 's own two sons joined the cavalry in a slaughter of many of their own relatives. In this groundbreaking work of American history, Andrew R. Graybill places the Marias Massacre within a larger, three-generation saga of the Clarke family, particularly illuminating the complex history of native-white intermarriage in the American Northwest.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 09/15/2014
ISBN: 9780871408570
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 1.00d