Exterminate Them : Written Accounts of the Murder, Rape, and Enslavement of Native Americans during the California Gold Rush.

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Popular media depict miners as a rough-and-tumble lot who diligently worked the placers along scenic rushing rivers while living in roaring mining camps in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Trafzer and Hyer destroy this mythic image by offering a collection of original newspaper articles...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trafzer, Clifford E.
Otros Autores: Hyer, Joel R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1999.
Temas:
Indians, Treatment of > California > History.
Indians, Treatment of > California > History > Sources.
Indians of North America > Crimes against > California.
Gold mines and mining > Social aspects
Indians of North America > Crimes against
Indians, Treatment of
California > Gold discoveries > Social aspects.
Californie > Découvertes d'or > Aspect social.
California
History
Sources
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Popular media depict miners as a rough-and-tumble lot who diligently worked the placers along scenic rushing rivers while living in roaring mining camps in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Trafzer and Hyer destroy this mythic image by offering a collection of original newspaper articles that describe in detail the murder, rape, and enslavement perpetrated by those who participated in the infamous gold rush. ""It is a mercy to the Red Devils, "" wrote an editor of the Chico Courier, ""to exterminate them."" Newspaper accounts of the era depict both the barbarity and the n.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (204 pages)
ISBN:9780870139611
0870139614

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