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The Massacre at Fall Creek
The Massacre at Fall Creek
Author: Jessamyn West
Set against the backdrop of the American wilderness, this monumental tale of passion, vengeance, and justice unfolds the soaring love story of frontier beauty Hannah Cape and her young city lawyer, Charlie Fort. — Amidst the violence and hate, Hannah's innocence blossoms into passion and with it comes a new understanding of herself and the world...  more »
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ISBN: 381634
Publication Date: 4/1976
Pages: 319
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Publisher: Fawcett Crest
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Five white men stand accused of the murder of innocent, peaceful Indians among them women and children. It is 1824, and Indiana is the western frontier of a new nation where Seneca warriors stand ready to fall on fledgling settlements should white mans justice fail. In a powerful American saga fashioned from the sparse historical record, Jessamyn West creates characters an appealing heroine, her lover, the attorney for the defense, an extraordinary Indian seer who stand at the center of a maelstrom of human emotions: hate, devotion, revenge, compassion, and above all, love. As the narrative sweeps from the crimes to the tension-packed trial and its strangely moving aftermath, the novel carries the reader to an awareness of undeniably modern implications of our historical past.
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