Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West
Author: Tate, Cassandra
ISBN: 9781632172501
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 304
Dimensions: 222mm x 151mm x 31mm
Format: Hardback
Descripition:
A nineteenth-century attack by Native Americans on a Presbyterian mission in what would become the Oregon Territory proved to be a turning point in the history of the American West. This book examines the tangled legacy of that event.
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.
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.
In Unsettled Ground, 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.
" Tate tells the Cayuse's side of the story with empathy and clarity . . . a meticulously researched book." -The Seattle Times
ISBN: 9781632172501
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 304
Dimensions: 222mm x 151mm x 31mm
Format: Hardback
Descripition:
A nineteenth-century attack by Native Americans on a Presbyterian mission in what would become the Oregon Territory proved to be a turning point in the history of the American West. This book examines the tangled legacy of that event.
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.
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.
In Unsettled Ground, 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.
" Tate tells the Cayuse's side of the story with empathy and clarity . . . a meticulously researched book." -The Seattle Times
