Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West, 1846-1890

A brilliant and riveting history of the famous and infamous massacres that marked the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century.

In Oh What a Slaughter, Larry McMurtry has written a unique, brilliant, and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked—and marred—the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century, and which still provoke immense controversy today.

Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres—Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, S...