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Shadows At Dawn. A Borderlands Massacre And The Violence Of History.  KARL JACOBY

Shadows At Dawn. A Borderlands Massacre And The Violence Of History.

KARL JACOBY

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Publication: The Penguin Press, 2008, New York

First edition. 8vo. Two-tone cloth and boards, xix [3], 358 pp., foreword, introduction, illustrated, maps, epilogue, acknowledgments, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, image credits. A promotional blurb on the dust jacket says, "In the predawn hours of April 30, 1871, a combined party of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O'odham Indians gathered just outside an Apache camp in the Arizona borderlands. At the first light of day they struck, murdering scores of Apaches, mostly women and children, in their sleep. After the attack, a quick count of the raiders revealed that not one of them had been harmed, but nearly 150 Apaches had been killed." Larry McMurtry says ".... an absorbing, brilliant study of the Camp Grant Massacre of 1871." President Grant decried the act as "purely murder," but essentially the citizens of this border region said they had to take matters into their own hands against the Apaches, because the U. S. Army did not provide protection against the raiding Apaches. As new, in dust jacket.

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