{"id":29914,"date":"2013-03-30T04:12:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T04:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29914"},"modified":"2017-02-22T22:30:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T22:30:21","slug":"the-red-and-the-white-a-family-saga-of-the-american-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29914","title":{"rendered":"The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

W. W. Norton & Company<\/a>
\nOctober 2013
\n352 pages
\n6.1 \u00d7 9.3 in
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-87140-445-9<\/p>\n

Andrew R. Graybill<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History
\nSouthern Methodist University<\/em><\/p>\n

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One of the American West\u2019s bloodiest\u2014and least-known\u2014massacres is searingly re-created in this generation-spanning history of native-white intermarriage.<\/em><\/p>\n

National Book Award\u2013winning histories such as The Hemingses of Monticello<\/a><\/em> and Slaves in the Family<\/a><\/em> have raised our awareness about America\u2019s intimately mixed black and white past. Award-winning western historian Andrew R. Graybill now sheds light on the overlooked interracial Native-white relationships critical in the development of the trans-Mississippi West in this multigenerational saga. Beginning in 1844 with the marriage of Montana<\/a> fur trader Malcolm Clarke and his Piegan Blackfeet<\/a> bride, Coth-co-co-na, Graybill traces the family from the mid-nineteenth century, when such mixed marriages proliferated, to the first half of the twentieth, when Clarke \u2019s children and grandchildren often encountered virulent prejudice. At the center of Graybill\u2019s history is the virtually unexamined 1870 Marias Massacre<\/a>, on a par with the more infamous slaughters at Sand Creek<\/a> and Wounded Knee<\/a>, an episode set in motion by the murder of Malcolm Clarke and in which Clarke \u2019s two sons rode with the Second U.S. Cavalry to kill their own blood relatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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