Oh What a Slaughter - Massacres in the Ameican West : 1846-1890

One of America's finest writers offers a brilliant and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. 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 currently hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857, Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers, including women and children.