Oh what a slaughter

massacres in the American West, 1846-1890

by Larry McMurtry

2005 178 pages eng

A history of the bloody massacres that marked--and marred--the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century, and which still provoke immense controversy today. Here are the true stories of the massacres at Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wound…