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Exterminate them : written accounts of the murder, rape, and slavery of Native Americans during the California gold rush, 1848-1868 /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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East Lansing, Mich. :
Michigan State University Press,
©1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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 nobility in human nature, but while some protested the inhumane treatment of Native Americans, they were not able to end the violence. Native Americans fought back, resisting the invasion, but they could not stop the tide of white miners and settlers. They became strangers in a stolen land. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 177 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585188181 9780585188188 9780870139611 0870139614 9781628951806 162895180X |