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Oh What A Slaughter by Larry McMurtry is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Oh What A Slaughter about?
In Oh What a Slaughter, Larry McMurtry has written a unique, brilliant, and searing 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 West's most terrible massacres — Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, but also Indians killing Americans, and, in the case of the hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857, Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers, including women and children.McMurtry's evocative descriptions of these events recall their full horror, and the deep, constant apprehension and dread endured by both pioneers and Indians. By modern standards the death tolls were often small — Custer's famous defeat at Little Big Horn in 1876...
Who reads Oh What A Slaughter?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Larry McMurtry
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, American Studies, Humanities
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