The Massacre at Fall Creek
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Five white men stand accused of the murder of innocent peaceful Indians - among them women and children. It is 1824 and Indiana is the Western frontier of a new nation where Seneca warriors stand ready to fall on fledgling settlements should white mens justice fail. In a powerful American saga fashioned from the sparse historical record Jessamyn West creates characters - an appealing heroine her lover the attorney for the defense an extraordinary Indian seer - who stand at the center of a maelstrom of human emotions: hate devotion revenge compassion and above all love. As the narrative sweeps from the crimes to the tension-packed trial and its strangely moving aftermath the novel carries the reader to an awareness of undeniably modern implications of our historical past.
