| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xix, 338 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-316) and index. |
| Contents |
Cutting Off Head Woman -- Four bears -- The man who stands alone with his gun -- The bird that comes home -- The man who talks not. |
| Summary |
Award-winning western historian Andrew R. Graybill ... 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. -- Publisher website. |
| Subject |
Marias Massacre, Mont., 1870.
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Interracial marriage -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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White people -- West (U.S.) -- Relations with Indians.
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Clarke, Malcolm, 1817-1869.
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Clarke, Malcolm, 1817-1869 -- Family.
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Clark family.
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Piegan Indians.
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| ISBN |
9780871404459 hardcover |
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0871404451 hardcover |
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