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PublisherArcadia Publishing
ISBN-101609490614
ISBN-139781609490614
eBay Product ID (ePID)99614763
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Book TitleMassacre of the Conestogas : on the Trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), General, Native American
Publication Year2010
IllustratorYes
GenrePhotography, History
AuthorNot Available
Book SeriesAmerican Heritage Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight0.7 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-039382
SynopsisA blow-by-blow account of the Conestoga Indians massacre, the aftermath and how the perpetrators got away with it. On two chilly December days in 1763, bands of armed men raged through camps of peaceful Conestoga Indians and killed 20 women, children and men to effectively wipe out the tribe. These murderous rampages by Lancaster County's Paxton Boys were the culminating tragedies in a series of traded atrocities between European settlers and native tribes. Lancaster journalist Jack Brubaker allows the bloody trail left by the killers through the Pennsylvania countryside., Chronicles the massacre of the Conestoga tribe in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania by the Paxton Boys in 1763 and the subsequent treatment of the perpetrators and the memory of the crime., On two chilly December days in 1763, bands of armed men raged through camps of peaceful Conestoga Indians. They killed twenty women, children and men, effectively wiping out the tribe. These murderous rampages by Lancaster County's Paxton Boys were the culminating tragedies in a series of traded atrocities between European settlers and native tribes. Lancaster journalist Jack Brubaker gives a blow-by-blow account of the massacres, examines their aftermath and investigates how the Paxton Boys got away with murder. Join Brubaker as he follows the bloody trail left by the killers through the Pennsylvania countryside., In December 1763, the Paxton Boys killed 20 peaceful Conestoga Indians living on a tract of land set aside for them in southern Lancaster County. This brutal elimination of an entire tribe was just the beginning of the crime. A larger group of Paxton raiders soon marched on Philadelphia and threatened more Indians there. Turned back by Pennsylvania's government, they returned to a largely supportive public in Lancaster County. Lancaster's magistrates and ministers, who had encouraged and enabled the Indian killers, refused to apprehend them or bring them to trial. Later, apologists for the Paxton Boys deliberately distorted the historical record. Now Jack Brubaker, an award-winning investigative reporter for Lancaster Newspapers, relates the chilling but compelling inside story of how the Paxton Boys got away with murder.
LC Classification NumberF152.B85 2010+
