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Book SynopsisWinner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award.
One of the American West’s bloodiest—and least-known—massacres is searingly re-created in this generation-spanning history of native-white intermarriage.
Trade Review"Brings to life a remarkable family that lived at the intersection of worlds, where the fur trade and intermarriage blurred the distinction between American Indians and white Americans." -- T.J. Stiles, author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
"A touching portrait of race relations on the frontier. . . . . Evocative details and a close attention to the arc of its subjects’ lives lend Graybill’s narrative emotional heft. . . . An entertaining and insightful exposition of an unjustly ignored facet of the American social fabric." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Fascinating insights into race relations on the evolving frontier…. highly recommended for all readers interested in the 19-century West." -- Library Journal
"Fascinating and often moving." -- Robert B. Mitchell - Washington Post
"Transforms a tragic, 19th-century story of heartbreak and revenge on the Rocky Mountain frontier, into a dynamic, multi-generational history. . . . . Shakespearean in its tragedy and Biblical in its parable of how the Indian tribes have endured a diaspora of such magnitude. . . . [The] Clarke family chose a purposeful, meaningful life, offering up, for all of us, a shining example of the power and strength of the human spirit." -- Stuart Rosebrook - True West
"A gripping Western saga. . . . Western history buffs and general readers alike cannot fail to profit from a careful reading of its pages—dramatic, heartbreaking." -- Wichita Eagle
"A masterful treatment of a much-neglected aspect of American history. . . . A must-read" -- Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello
