The red and the white
Subtitle: a family saga of the American West
By: Andrew R. Graybill
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780871404459
Subjects: Interracial marriage; Relations with Indians; Marias Massacre, Mont., 1870; Family; Whites; Piegan Indians; History
Description: Award-winning western historian Andrew R. Graybill ... sheds light on the overlooked interracial Native-white relationships critical in the development of the trans-Mississippi West in this multigenerational saga. Beginning in 1844 with the marriage of Montana fur trader Malcolm Clarke and his Piegan Blackfeet bride, Coth-co-co-na, Graybill traces the family from the mid-nineteenth century, when such mixed marriages proliferated, to the first half of the twentieth, when Clarke's children and grandchildren often encountered virulent prejudice. At the center of Graybill's history is the virtually unexamined 1870 Marias Massacre, on a par with the more infamous slaughters at Sand Creek and Wounded Knee, an episode set in motion by the murder of Malcolm Clarke and in which Clarke's two sons rode with the Second U.S. Cavalry to kill their own blood relatives. -- Publisher website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-316) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cutting Off Head Woman; title: Four bears; title: The man who stands alone with his gun; title: The bird that comes home; title: The man who talks not.