The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell: A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture: 6 (The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West) - Softcover

Joan Carpenter Troccoli (editor), Lewis I. Sharp (Foreword By) & Duane H. King (Foreword By)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806140976 ISBN 13: 9780806140971

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009

Synopsis

In the dawn of November 29, 1864, a Colorado militia unit attacked a peaceful encampment of Cheyennes by Sand Creek in southeast Colorado Territory and murdered almost two hundred men, women, and children. In The Massacre at Sand Creek, Bruce Cutler retells, in a powerful narrative, the events surrounding this atrocity. We hear the voices of the white participants, such as Colonel John Chivington, who planned and led the surprise attack, and Captain Silas Soule, the only officer who refused to attack. We are also given the voices of the Cheyennes - voices that historical documents do not record - with particular focus on Black Kettle, the chief who trusted the promise of protection he had received from white officers and who waved the white flag of peace even as the attacking army approached.

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About the Author

Joan Carpenter Troccoli retired as Senior Scholar of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art of the Denver Art Museum in June 2012. She is the Founding Director of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art, Denver Art Museum, a position in which she served from 2001-05. From 1996-2001, she was Deputy Director of the Denver Art Museum. Before coming to Denver in 1995, she was a Curator of Art and subsequently Director of Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She holds a B. A. from Middlebury College and master's and doctoral degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Lewis I. Sharp is Frederick and Jan Mayer Director, Denver Art Museum.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806140976
• ISBN 13: 9780806140971
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288