Myth, Memory, and Massacre The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker |
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| Author:
| Carlson, Paul H.
Crum, Tom |
| ISBN: | 978-0-89672-707-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Publisher: | Texas Tech University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $43.00 |
Book Description:
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In reexamining historical accounts of the 1860 "Battle of Pease River," when the white woman Cynthia Ann Parker was retaken from her Indian captors, Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum expose errors, falsifications, and mysteries that have contributed to a skewed understanding of the facts. For political and racist reasons, they argue, a altered; the official Ranger report went missing from the state adjutant general's office. Historians, as a result, have unwittingly used fiction as the...
More DescriptionIn reexamining historical accounts of the 1860 "Battle of Pease River," when the white woman Cynthia Ann Parker was retaken from her Indian captors, Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum expose errors, falsifications, and mysteries that have contributed to a skewed understanding of the facts. For political and racist reasons, they argue, a altered; the official Ranger report went missing from the state adjutant general's office. Historians, as a result, have unwittingly used fiction as the basis for 150 years of analysis. Myth, Memory, and Massacre peels away assumptions surrounding one of the most infamous episodes in Texas history, even while it adds new dimensions to the question of what constitutes reliable knowledge.