In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of

"On April 20, 1914, in the small railroad town of Ludlow, Colorado, striking coalminers and state National Guardsmen waged a day-long battle that ended with the

"I share in this book my past in the hope that you recognize it is our future." With these words, Tewhan "Massacre" Butler begins his extraordinary story, an ho

A brilliant and riveting history of the famous and infamous massacres that marked the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. In Oh What a Slau

This book examines the response of American society to the My Lai massacre and its ambiguous place in American national memory. The author argues that the massa