Violent encounters
Subtitle: interviews on western massacres
By: Deborah and Jon Lawrence
Contributors: Lawrence, Jon, 1945-
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780806141268
Subjects: Violence against; Massacres; Indians of North America; Territorial expansion; Interviews; Wars; History
Description: "Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual book shows, was far more complex than the bloodshed depicted in dime novels and western movies. The scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West, embrace a wide range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both traditional views of western expansion and politically correct ideologies"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: The McComas Massacre : an interview with Marc Simmons; title: The captivity and return of Olive Oatman : an interview with Margot Mifflin; title: The Mountain Meadows Massacre : an interview with Will Bagley; title: The Camp Grant Massacre : an interview with Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh; title: Indians, emigrants, and the Army on the overland trails : an interview with Michael Tate; title: Destruction and survival of the California Indians : an interview with Albert Hurtado; title: The Sioux Wars : an interview with Robert Utley; title: The Cheyenne Wars : an interview with Jerome A. Greene; title: Violence over the Great Basin : an interview with Ned Blackhawk.