The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History

The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History

by Kass Fleisher
The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History

The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History

by Kass Fleisher

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Overview

At dawn on January 29, 1863, Union-affiliated troops under the command of Col. Patrick Connor were brought by Mormon guides to the banks of the Bear River, where, with the tacit approval of Abraham Lincoln, they attacked and slaughtered nearly three hundred Northwestern Shoshoni men, women, and children. Evidence suggests that, in the hours after the attack, the troops raped the surviving women—an act still denied by some historians and Shoshoni elders. In exploring why a seminal act of genocide is still virtually unknown to the U.S. public, Kass Fleisher chronicles the massacre itself, and investigates the National Park Service's proposal to create a National Historic Site to commemorate the massacre—but not the rape. When she finds herself arguing with a Shoshoni woman elder about whether the rape actually occurred, Fleisher is forced to confront her own role as a maker of this conflicted history, and to examine the legacy of white women "busybodies."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791485200
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 02/01/2004
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 364
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Kass Fleisher is an Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I. THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE

1. What (We Think) Happened

PART II. THE MAKING OF HISTORY

2. How It Came to Me

3. The Truth Tour

4. Madsen

5. Griffin

6. Hansen

7. Parry

8. Warner

9. Politics

PART III. CONCLUSIONS WITHOUT ENDS

10. Ten Digressions on What's Wrong: A Postscript

Afterword

Works Cited and Consulted

Index

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