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Murder in Their Hearts: The Fall Creek Massacre

By David Thomas Murphy

Book information

Publisher
Indiana Historical Society Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780871953049, 2010000174
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6536492 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-02 00:55:47
HIS028000HIS036040HIS036090HistoryNonfiction

Description

In March 1824 a group of angry and intoxicated settlers brutally murdered nine Indians camped along a tributary of Fall Creek. The carnage was recounted in lurid detail in the contemporary press, and the events that followed sparked a national sensation. Murder in Their Hearts: The Fall Creek Massacre tells that, although violence between settlers and Native Americans was not unusual during the early nineteenth century, in this particular incident the white men responsible for the murders were singled out and hunted down, brought to trial, convicted by a jury of their neighbors, and, for the first time under American law, sentenced to death and executed for the murder of Native Americans.

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