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The Massacre at Fall Creek
The Massacre at Fall Creek
Author: Jessamyn West
ISBN-13: 9780151578207
ISBN-10: 0151578206
Publication Date: 3/1975
Pages: 373
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Publisher: Harcourt
Book Type: Hardcover
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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.