Shadows at Dawn
A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History

Name: Shadows at Dawn
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Karl Jacoby
ISBN: 9781982617356

Author: Karl Jacoby

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 10 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 01/15/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Native & Indigenous History, Native & Indigenous Nonfiction, Us History

Synopsis

A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American historyIn April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O’odham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the past century, the attack, which came to be known as the Camp Grant Massacre, has largely faded from memory. Now, drawing on oral histories, contemporary newspaper reports, and the participants’ own accounts, prizewinning author Karl Jacoby brings this perplexing incident and tumultuous era to life to paint a sweeping panorama of the American Southwest—a world far more complex, diverse, and morally ambiguous than the traditional portrayals of the Old West.

About Karl Jacoby

Karl Jacoby is a professor of history at Columbia University. The author of Shadows at Dawn and Crimes against Nature, he has won the Albert J. Beveridge Award and a Guggenheim fellowship, among many other honors. He lives in New York.

About Malcolm Hillgartner

Malcolm Hillgartner has narrated over 175 audiobooks. He was named an AudioFile Best Voice of 2013. His work ranges from children's titles such as On the Blue Comet (AudioFile Best of 2011, Earphones), and Neal Stevenson's sci-fi epic REAMDE (Audible.com Best of 2011) to the biographies Kissinger (AudioFile Best of 2013, Earphones) and Cheever (AudioFile Best of 2009, Earphones). He is also an accomplished actor, writer, and musician. With his wife and partner, Jahnna Beecham, he has written over 130 books for teens and young readers, as well as the musicals Chaps! and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Musical, which have been produced in the U.S. and Canada.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Suzanne

Shadows at Dawn is non-fiction work about the 1871 Camp Grant Massacre, when a group of vigilantes attacked an Apache camp, slaughtering mostly women and children. The story is told from the perspectives of the four different peoples involved: Anglo-Americans, the Apache, the Mexicans, and the O'odh......more

Goodreads review by Kirstie

This is the first history book I’ve read outside of school. Eminently worth the time it took to get used to the genre. Exceptionally, accessibly written. The book was important to me for two main reasons. First, it shows both the necessity and the value of examining the different ways that people tel......more

Goodreads review by Margaret

Taking as its center the Camp Grant Massacre of 1871, Jacoby traces the complex relationships between the four peoples who collided in Aravaipa Canyon--the O'odham, the Spanish Vecinos, the Americans (and the American Army, functioning sometimes separately) and the Nnee, with special concern for wha......more

Quotes

“For buffs more accustomed to traditional tales of Custer and Wounded Knee, this telling might prove an unexpected delight.” Publishers Weekly

“Historian Jacoby makes an important contribution to the scholarship of the American West with this balanced portrait of the brutal Camp Grant Massacre in Arizona.” Booklist