Shadows at dawn : an Apache massacre and the violence of history / by Karl Jacoby ; foreword by Patricia Nelson Limerick.

Predawn, April 30, 1871, a party of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O'odham Indians gathered outside an Apache camp in the Arizona borderlands. At first light they struck, murdering nearly 150 Apaches, mostly women and children, in their sleep. In its day, the atrocity, known as the Camp Grant Massa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacoby, Karl, 1965-
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2009.
Series:Penguin history of American life.
Subjects:
Camp Grant Massacre, Ariz., 1871.
Apache people > Wars.
Apache people > History > 19th century.
Massacres > Arizona > Aravaipa Canyon.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Crimes against > Arizona > Aravaipa Canyon.
Indigenous peoples, Treatment of > Arizona > Aravaipa Canyon.
Aravaipa Canyon (Ariz.) > History.
Physical Description:xxi, 358 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Format: Book

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