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Author Trafzer, Clifford E

Title Exterminate Them : Written Accounts of the Murder, Rape, and Enslavement of Native Americans during the California Gold Rush
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages)
Contents Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: White American Perceptions of California Indians; Chapter 2: Native American Reaction to the Invasion; Chapter 3: Other Native Resistance; Chapter 4: The Gold Rush and Native Americans of Southern California; Chapter 5: Anglo Depredations Against California Indians; Chapter 6: Indian Relations with the State and Federal Governments; Suggested Reading; Index
Summary Popular media depict miners as a rough-and-tumble lot who diligently worked the placers along scenic rushing rivers while living in roaring mining camps in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Trafzer and Hyer destroy this mythic image by offering a collection of original newspaper articles that describe in detail the murder, rape, and enslavement perpetrated by those who participated in the infamous gold rush. ""It is a mercy to the Red Devils, "" wrote an editor of the Chico Courier, ""to exterminate them."" Newspaper accounts of the era depict both the barbarity and the n
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Subject Indians, Treatment of -- California -- History
Indians, Treatment of -- California -- History -- Sources
Indians of North America -- Crimes against -- California
Gold mines and mining -- Social aspects
Indians of North America -- Crimes against
Indians, Treatment of
SUBJECT California -- Gold discoveries -- Social aspects
Subject California
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Hyer, Joel R
ISBN 9780870139611
0870139614