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

Graybill, Andrew R.

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ISBN 10: 0871404451 ISBN 13: 9780871404459

Casa editrice: Liveright Pub Corp, 2013

Riassunto

National Book Award–winning histories such as The Hemingses of Monticello and Slaves in the Family have raised our awareness about America’s intimately mixed black and white past. Award-winning western historian Andrew R. Graybill now 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.

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With meticulous research and a keen eye for the grand sweep of time and space in the West, Andrew Graybill tells the story of a forgotten massacre that blows apart stereotypes of the nineteenth-century frontier. He brings to life a remarkable family that lived at the intersection of worlds, where the fur trade and intermarriage blurred the distinction between American Indians and white Americans. In this clan's corner of Montana, personal conflicts met national policy and mass migration in an explosion of violence and political recriminations. --T.J. Stiles, author of "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt", winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and "Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War "

L'autore

Andrew R. Graybill is an associate professor of history and director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

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• Editore: Liveright Pub Corp
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0871404451
• ISBN 13: 9780871404459
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 338