ASIN: B00HV15KAQ
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 40
*Includes pictures of important people and scenes of the massacre.*Includes accounts of Wounded Knee*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents. "General Nelson A. Miles who visited the scene of carnage, following a three day blizzard, estimated that around 300 snow shrouded forms were strewn over the countryside. He also discovered to his horror that helpless children and women with babes in their arms had been chased as far as two miles from the original scene of encounter and cut down without mercy by the troopers. ... Judging by the slaughter on the battlefield it was suggested that the soldiers simply went berserk. For who could explain such a merciless disregard for life?" - Hugh McGinnis, 7th CavalryAmong all the events in the strained relations between the U.S. government and Native Americans during the 19th century, the most notorious and defining ...
