
Oh What a Slaughter
Massacres in the American West, 1846 - 1890
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Narrated by:
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Michael Prichard
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By:
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Larry McMurtry
Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres: Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, but also Indians killing Americans, and, in the case of the hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857, Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers, including women and children.
McMurtry's evocative descriptions of these events recall their full horror, and the deep, constant apprehension and dread endured by both pioneers and Indians. By modern standards the death tolls were often small, Custer's famous defeat at Little Big Horn in 1876 was the only encounter to involve more than 200 dead, yet in the thinly populated West of that time, the violent extinction of a hundred people had a colossal impact on all sides. Though the perpetrators often went unpunished, many guilty and traumatized men felt compelled to tell and retell the horrors they had committed. From letters and diaries, McMurtry has created a moving and swiftly paced narrative, as memorable in its way as such classics as Evan S. Connell's Son of the Morning Star and Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
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Critic reviews
"This book will make an outstanding addition to western history collections." (Booklist)
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I think that too often in recent years authors will use history as a way of bludgening the reader with his or her take on current events. I was expecting that here.
However, with one notable and unfortunate exception toward the end of the book, I thought that McMurtry did a pretty good job of staying balanced. Massacre is his subject, after all, and massacres have a way of drawing out judgements.
I agree with the other reviewers regarding the narrator. I didn't put me off the book, obviously, but I grew tired of hearing him breathe.
Enjoyable and Balanced
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Good but not great
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This is a shame
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Boring!!!
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The book was more like the author's notebook and not well organized.
Biased
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Would you try another book from Larry McMurtry and/or Michael Prichard?
No !What do you think your next listen will be?
?What didn’t you like about Michael Prichard’s performance?
Terrible voice for this kind of book ! I could barely make it thru the book.You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
No, I was disappointed.Any additional comments?
I feel books about the west and frontier life should be read by someone who sounds like he could have been there. Just my opinion !Boring, Bias
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