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Massacre Along the Medicine Road: A Social History of the Indian War of 1864 in Nebraska Territory
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by Ronald Becher
Sales Rank: 888884
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 475 pages
Published by: Caxton Press March 1, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0870043897
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0870043895
Book Dimensions:
9.4 x 6.5 x 1.4 inches
Weighs: 2.4 pounds
Gregory M. Franzwa, Folio Magazine
I suppose that I have read more than a thousand books, mostly on the American West, since I started my Oregon Trail studies more than thirty years ago. Becher's Massacre along the Medicine Road is the magnum opus of this decade, as far as I am concerned.
Becher doesn't start right off with the war whoops. Rather, he lays the foundation for the tragedy carefully, starting with Powhatan and the Jamestown settlers. Then to New England and the more peaceable relations between whites and Indians.
Becher is interested in telling the story as his research told it to him. He is not interested in being delicate. In a passage which is disturbingly similar to the Japanese atrocities in Borneo in the opening days of World War II, he writes about the discovery of the bodies of the victims of the Plum Creek Massacre. For what he has done with this book, he deserves a Pulitzer Prize.
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Book Description
In August 1864, Cheyenne and Sioux warriors launched a series of raids on the "road ranches" along the California-Oregon Trail, in Nebraska Territory, killing, wounding, or capturing dozens of white settlers. Massacre along the Medicine Road details that violent summer, as seen through the eyes of the people who were the targets of the attacks. Ronald Becher spent more than seven years sifting through thousands of pages of documents, diaries and newspaper accounts from the period, to produce a fascinating and detailed snapshot of the people, events and their aftermath.
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This review is from: Massacre Along the Medicine Road: A Social History of the Indian War of 1864 in Nebraska Territory (Paperback)
For some reason, the impression this book description gives is that it only covers the Indian raids on the road ranches along the Little Blue River in August 1864. It certainly does that in exhaustive detail. But it covers SO much more. It basically covers ALL the Indian raid activity in Nebraska in the 1860-67 time frame including all along the Platte Valley as far as Julesburg. Biographies of all the major players are here too, no easy task considering most were simple pioneers that left a tough trail to follow. The comprehensivness of this tome is incredible. The book is richly sourced and the footnotes highly informative. Maps are excellent, although throwing in one additional map showing all the rivers of Nebraska would have been nice. This is a book so packed full of information that it needs to be read twice, because there's too much to digest the first time around. Mr. Becher, my sincere congratulations. You've done a marvelous job. This was obviously a labor of love. Hard to believe this is your first book.
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