The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West (2013) Andrew R Graybill [mobi/epub/azw3]

Format: mobi/epub
Length: 338 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction/History
Date: 7 October 2013

One of the American West's bloodiest - and least-known - massacres is searingly re-created in this generation-spanning history of native-white intermarriage.

Award-winning western historian Andrew R. Graybill now sheds light on the overlooked interracial Native-white relationships critical in the development of the trans-Mississippi West in this multigenerational saga.

Beginning in 1844 with the marriage of Montana fur trader Malcolm Clarke and his Piegan Blackfeet bride, Coth-co-co-na, Graybill traces the family from the mid-nineteenth century, when such mixed marriages proliferated, to the first half of the twentieth, when Clarke's children and grandchildren often encountered virulent prejudice.

At the center of Graybill's history is the virtually unexamined 1870 Marias Massacre, on a par with the more infamous slaughters at Sand Creek and Wounded Knee, an episode set in motion by the murder of Malcolm Clarke and in which Clarke's two sons rode with the Second U.S. Cavalry to kill their own blood relatives.

Author:

Andrew R. Graybill is an associate professor of history and director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. He lives in Dallas, Texas.