The massacre at Fall Creek
By: Jessamyn West.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Wars -- Fiction; Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction; Indiana -- Fiction
Description: In the year 1824, not far from what is now Indianapolis, Indiana, five white men killed a group of nine innocent, peaceful Indians who were camped nearby. Fall Creek, a settlement about 100 miles northwest of Cincinnati, Ohio, was on the frontier of white civilization. The people who lived there had pushed westward to find their own land, enduring hardships, including Indian raids, before reaching their goal. For many years whites had been killing Indians who were in their way; seldom had they been punished by their communities for their deeds.