Unsettled Ground - by Cassandra Tate (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Historian Cassandra Tate proposes to assemble the story of the Whitman Massacre from the many accounts while including the native point of view to provide a greater context to the event"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A highly readable, myth-busting, fact-based story. [A] tale for all who love the West, its history and its truths.<b><br><i>--The Inlander</i> <p/>Historian and journalist Cassandra Tate takes a fresh look at the personalities, dynamics, disputes, social pressures, and shifting legacy of the Whitman Massacre--a pivotal event in the history of the American West--including the often-missing Indian point of view.</b> <p/>In 1836, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, devout missionaries from upstate New York, established a Presbyterian mission on Cayuse Indian land near what is now the fashionable wine capital of Walla Walla, Washington. Eleven years later, a group of Cayuses killed the Whitmans and eleven others in what became known as the Whitman Massacre. The attack led to a war of retaliation against the Cayuse; the extension of federal control over the present-day states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming; and martyrdom for the Whitmans. Today, however, the Whitmans are more likely to be demonized as colonizers than revered as heroes. <p/>"[A] gripping adventure story...Tate's account is a prism that allows us to see the multiple dimensions of a classic frontier conflict.<b>"</b><br><b>--Peter Stark, author of <i>Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire <p/></i></b><i>"</i>[Tate] tells the Cayuse's side of the story with empathy and clarity...She writes with a flair and transparency unusual in such a meticulously researched book<i>.</i><b><i>--The Seattle Times <p/></i></b><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Washington State Book Award Finalist</b> <p/>"<i>Unsettled Ground </i>is both the gripping adventure story of a cross-continental journey and a cultural exploration of the collision of two very different ways of life. . . . Told with depth and insight, Tate's account is a prism that allows us to see the multiple dimensions of a classic frontier conflict."<br><b>--Peter Stark, author of <i>Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire <p/></i></b>"I consider <i>Unsettled Ground</i> one of the most important Northwest history books ever written."<b><br>--John Hughes, Chief Historian, Washington Secretary of State <br></b> <br>"Even well-read aficionados of Western history will be surprised and perhaps dismayed by Tate's comprehensive and masterfully layered narrative."<br><b>--Shannon Applegate, author of <i>Skookum: An Oregon Pioneer Family's History and Lore</i> and <i>Living Among Headstones: Life in a Country Cemetery</i><br></b> <br>"In this overdue era of righting unbalanced histories, Cassandra Tate reexamines a deadly tragedy from the nineteenth-century American West. <i>Unsettled Ground</i> is a riveting blend of intricate research, fresh cultural perspective, and first-rate storytelling."<br><b>--Dave Boling, author of</b> <i><b>Guernica</b></i> <b>and</b> <b>The Lost History of Stars</b> <p/>"....by turns moving, evenhanded and lyrical in its evocation of time and place."<br><b><i>--Seattle Times<br></i></b><br>A highly readable, myth-busting, fact-based story. [A] tale for all who love the West, its history and its truths.<br><i><b>--The Inlander</b><br></i><br>Balanced and deeply researched.<br><b><i>--Crosscut<br></i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>CASSANDRA TATE is a Seattle-based writer and editor. A former journalist, she earned a Ph.D in American history at the University of Washington in 1995. She is the author of <i>Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of The Little White Slaver.</i> Her work has been published in <i>Smithsonian, Columbia Journalism Review</i>, and other national magazines, and she has contributed more than 200 articles to HistoryLink.org, the online encyclopedia of Washington State history. She is a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
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