SHADOWS AT DAWN Hardback - 2008
by Jacoby, Karl
A groundbreaking exploration of one of the worst Indian massacresin American history illuminates the clash of American, Mexican, andtribal cultures in the southwestern borderlands.
In the predawn hours of April 30, 1871, a combinedparty of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O'odham Indiansgathered just outside an Apache camp in the Arizona borderlands.At the first light of day they struck, murdering nearly150 Apaches, mostly women and children, in their sleep. In itsday, the atrocity, which came to be known as the Camp GrantMassacre, generated unparalleled national attention federalinvestigations, heated debate in the press, and a tense criminaltrial. This was the era of the United States' 'peace policy'toward Indians, and the Apaches had been living on a would-bereservation, under the supposed protection of the U.S. Army.President Ulysses Grant decried the act as 'purely murder,' butAmerican settlers countered that the distant U.S. governmenthad failed to protect them from Apache attacks, and they wereforced to take justice into their own hands.
In the past century, the massacre has largely fadedfrom memory. Now, drawing on oral histories, newspaperreports, and the participants' own accounts, prizewinningauthor Karl Jacoby brings this horrific incident and tumultuousera to life. What brought this party together on that fatefulApril morning, and what led them to commit such a stunningact of violence? Shadows at Dawn traces the escalating conflicts,as well as the alliances, that transpired among the Americans,Mexicans, Apache, and Tohono O'odham living in the borderlandsover the course of several hundred years, beginning withthe seventeenth-century arrival of the first Spanish missionaries.The American presence brought further transformations, especiallyafter the Gadsden Purchase transferred a large swath ofMexican territory to the United States, leaving many Mexicansfeeling like foreigners in their own land. By recounting theevents from the perspective of each of the four parties involved,Jacoby challenges the dominance of the American version of thewestern story and also reveals the way each group has remembered,or forgotten, the massacre.
Prodigiously researched and powerfully written,Shadows at Dawn examines a forgotten atrocity and in doingso paints a sweeping panorama of the southwestern borderlands a world far more complex, culturally diverse, andmorally ambiguous than the traditional portrayals of the OldWest.
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- Title SHADOWS AT DAWN
- Author Jacoby, Karl
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 384
- Language EN
- Publisher Penguin Press HC, The, New York
- Date 2008-11-20
- ISBN 9781594201936
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