Massacre of the Conestogas
Subtitle: on the trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County
By: Jack Brubaker
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781609490614
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Telling the story; title: "Drive the heathen out of the land"; title: "Some hot headed ill advised persons"; title: "The same spirit & frantic rage"; title: "Persons of undoubted probity & veracity"; title: pt. 2. Retelling the story; title: "I never heard one word of it till it was just over"; title: "A mighty noise and hubbub"; title: "Shot, scalped, hacked, and cut to pieces"; title: "One of those youthful ebullitions of wrath"; title: "The innocent were destined to share the fate of the guilty"; title: "A zone of vicious racial violence"; title: pt. 3. Killers and abettors; title: "The most respectable of men"; title: "They had possession and would keep it"; title: "Eternal shame & reproach"; title: pt. 4. Death and reconciliation; title: "The remains of the victims of a terrible crime"; title: "Slaughter'd, kill'd, and cut off a whole tribe"; title: "Who was left to mourn for these people?"