A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian
massacres in American history
In April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O'odham
Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly
150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the past century
the attack, which came to be known as the Camp Grant Massacre, has
largely faded from memory. Now, drawing on oral histories,
contemporary newspaper reports, and the participants' own accounts,
prize-winning author Karl Jacoby brings this perplexing incident
and tumultuous era to life to paint a sweeping panorama of the
American Southwest-a world far more complex, diverse, and morally
ambiguous than the traditional portrayals of the Old West.