Massacre: The Tragedy at White River

ISBN-10: 0803241070
ISBN-13: 9780803241077
Series: Massacre
Pages: 364
Language: English
Published: 1980
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Author: Marshall Sprague

Description

In 1879 a small band of Ute Indians went wild in the Colorado Rockies and ambushed a force of soldiers, murdered their Indian agent and his employees, and took three women hostage. This was the Massacre at White River, and its consequences included the removal of the Ute tribe to barren lands, while the western slope of Colorado was opened to white settlement.