The red and the white : a family saga of the American West

Graybill, Andrew R. 1971- (Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0871404451
ISBN: 9780871404459
ISBN: 0871404451
Physical Description: print
xix, 338 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-317) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cutting Off Head Woman -- Four bears -- The man who stands alone with his gun -- The bird that comes home -- The man who talks not.