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The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, Hardcover – 2024
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- ISBN
- 9781501108167
- Book Title
- Deerfield Massacre : a Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), United States / General, Native American
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 18.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt (now an Apple TV+ series) and in the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between natives and colonists in Massachusetts in 1704 and the tragic saga that unfolded. Once it was one of the most infamous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten. In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little town in western Massachusetts there stands what once was the most revered relic from the history of early New England: the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre of 1704. This impregnable barricade--known to early Americans as "The Old Indian Door"--constructed from double-thick planks of Massachusetts oak and studded with hand-wrought iron nails to repel the tomahawk blades wielded by several attacking Native tribes, is the sole surviving artifact from one of the most dramatic moments in colonial American history: In the leap year of 1704, on the cold, snowy night of February 29, hundreds of Indians and their French allies swept down on an isolated frontier outpost to slaughter or capture its inhabitants. The sacking of Deerfield led to one of the greatest sagas of survival, sacrifice, family, and faith ever told in North America. One hundred and twelve survivors, including their fearless minister, the Reverend John Williams, were captured and forced to march three hundred miles north into enemy territory in Canada. Any captive who faltered or became too weak to continue the journey--including Williams's own wife--fell under the tomahawk or war club. Survivors of the march willed themselves to live and endured captivity. Ransomed by the royal governor of Massachusetts, the captives later returned home to Deerfield, rebuilt their town and, for the rest of their lives, told the incredible tale. The memoir of Rev. Williams, The Redeemed Captive , published soon after his liberation, became one of the first bestselling books in American history and remains a literary classic. The Old Indian Door is a touchstone that conjures up one of the most dramatic and inspiring stories of colonial America--and now, at last, this legendary event is brought to vivid life by popular historian James Swanson.
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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1501108166
ISBN-13
9781501108167
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9057268195
Product Key Features
Book Title
Deerfield Massacre : a Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), United States / General, Native American
Publication Year
2024
Genre
History
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
18.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E197.S936 2024
Reviews
"James Swanson's eloquent and gripping account of Deerfield's bloody past transports readers across space and time, while critically assessing the town's multiple efforts to grapple with its history. He explores the persistence of colonial memories, and welcomes the inclusion of often-ignored Native American voices and perspectives. From a midnight vigil in a haunting colonial graveyard, a visit to the tomahawk-splintered Indian House door, or a stroll along an icy moonlit river on a cold February night, Swanson evokes disparate and unexpectedly poetic connections. He invites readers to walk with him into, through, and beyond this complicated past." -- Margaret M. Bruchac, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania and author of Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists, "[A] meticulous account of the eponymous 18th-century massacre . . . Swanson's narrative pivots ingeniously from the event itself . . . to trace the massacre's afterlife . . . The result is a rewarding close look at the process of history-making." -- Publishers Weekly, "A vivid account . . . Swanson re-creates Deerfield's harsh environment, powerfully evoking the trepidation of the Puritan colonizers who were isolated from 'civilization' by a sinister wooded wilderness." -- Wall Street Journal
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2023-043320
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