Misplaced Massacre Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek

Name: Misplaced Massacre Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek
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ISBN: 9780674045859

ISBN-10: 0674045858

ISBN-13: 9780674045859

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ari Kelman

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In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. More than 150 Native Americans were slaughtered, the vast majority of them women, children, and the elderly, making it one of the most infamous cases of state-sponsored violence in U.S. history. A Misplaced Massacre examines the ways in which generations of Americans have struggled to come to terms with the meaning of both the attack and its aftermath, most publicly…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/11/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English

Ari Kelman is McCabe Greer Professor of the American Civil War Era at Pennsylvania State University.



List of Maps and Illustrations


Preface



A Perfect Mob



Looters



The Smoking Gun



Accurate but Not Precise



Indelible Infamy



You Can't Carve Things in Stone


Epilogue: When Is Enough Enough?


Notes


Index