The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1985. First Edition. 285pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Burgundy cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Minor rubbing to extremities of jacket. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Forward by Charles S. Peterson. Item #10173
In this work, Dr. Madsen details the many confrontations and the factors leading up to the Bear River Massacre and the decline of the Shoshoni Frontier. The author makes a compelling argument that precedents were established that were followed again and again on subsequent western Indian frontiers, offering a new view of early encounters in the Trans-Mississippi West.
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