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Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West
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Title: Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West
Author: Cassandra Tate
ISBN: 9781632172501
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Published: 2020
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 304
Publisher Description: <b>A highly-readable, myth-busting history of the Whitman Massacre--a pivotal event in the history of the American West--that includes the often-missing Native American point of view.<br></b><br> In 1836, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, devout missionaries from upstate New York, established a Presbyterian mission on Cayuse Indian land near what is now the fashionable wine capital of Walla Walla, Washington. Eleven years later, a group of Cayuses killed the Whitmans and eleven others in what became known as the Whitman Massacre. The attack led to a war of retaliation against the Cayuse; the extension of federal control over the present-day states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming; and martyrdom for the Whitmans. Today, however, the Whitmans are more likely to be demonized as colonizers than revered as heroes. <p/>In <i>Unsettled Ground</i>, historian and journalist Cassandra Tate takes a fresh look at the personalities, dynamics, disputes, social pressures, and shifting legacy of a pivotal event in the history of the American West. <p/> <b>"[Tate] tells the Cayuse's side of the story with empathy and clarity . . . a meticulously researched book<i>.</i>"<i> </i>--<i>The Seattle Times</i></b>
Author: Cassandra Tate
ISBN: 9781632172501
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Published: 2020
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 304
Publisher Description: <b>A highly-readable, myth-busting history of the Whitman Massacre--a pivotal event in the history of the American West--that includes the often-missing Native American point of view.<br></b><br> In 1836, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, devout missionaries from upstate New York, established a Presbyterian mission on Cayuse Indian land near what is now the fashionable wine capital of Walla Walla, Washington. Eleven years later, a group of Cayuses killed the Whitmans and eleven others in what became known as the Whitman Massacre. The attack led to a war of retaliation against the Cayuse; the extension of federal control over the present-day states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming; and martyrdom for the Whitmans. Today, however, the Whitmans are more likely to be demonized as colonizers than revered as heroes. <p/>In <i>Unsettled Ground</i>, historian and journalist Cassandra Tate takes a fresh look at the personalities, dynamics, disputes, social pressures, and shifting legacy of a pivotal event in the history of the American West. <p/> <b>"[Tate] tells the Cayuse's side of the story with empathy and clarity . . . a meticulously researched book<i>.</i>"<i> </i>--<i>The Seattle Times</i></b>
