Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shi. Tate 9781632172501 New**

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Unsettled GroundThe Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West\nAuthor(s): Cassandra Tate\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Blue Star Press, United States\nImprint: Sasquatch Books\nISBN-13: 9781632172501, 978-1632172501\nSynopsis\nA highly-readable, myth-busting history of the Whitman Massacrea pivotal event in the history of the American Westthat includes the often-missing Native American point of view. In 1836, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, devout missionaries from upstate New York, established a Presbyterian mission on Cayuse Indian land near what is now the fashionable wine capital of Walla Walla, Washington. Eleven years later, a group of Cayuses killed the Whitmans and eleven others in what became known as the Whitman Massacre. The attack led to a war of retaliation against the Cayuse; the extension of federal control over the present-day states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming; and martyrdom for the Whitmans. Today, however, the Whs