Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West

by Cassandra Tate

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163217250X
• ISBN13: 9781632172501
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Sasquatch Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.6"