Autor(en)

Griffin, Patrick:

Verlag / Jahr

New York: Hill & Wang, 2007.

Format / Einband

Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag. 368 Seiten.

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 630 g

ISBN

0809095157

EAN

9780809095155

Bestell-Nr

1111117

Bemerkungen

Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Hier der Anfang des Buches, in dem es um die amerikanische Landnahme im "Wilden Westen" und ihren Zusammenhang mit der Legitimierung des neuen Staates nach dessen Unabhängigkeit von England geht: "From the Seven Years' War through the American Revolution and until the Whiskey Rebellion, a frontiersman haunted the American imagination. Growing up on the Pennsylvania frontier as the eldest of ten, Tom Quick was one of those faceless, poorer men squatting or holding small tracts and struggling to achieve competency. Something, however, set him apart from his neighbors: Tom Quick had pledged to exterminate every Indian he came across. Before 1763, he did not seem destined to become an Indian slayer. Like many young boys on the frontier, he hunted, fished, and played with young Delawares in the woods around the cabin his father had built, counting them among his closest friends. That is until the end of the French and Indian War, when a young Delaware shot and scalped his father, stripping him of his silver cufflinks and shoe buckles. His fathers murder transformed Tom Quick. "The blood of the whole Indian race," he reputedly declared, "is not sufficient to atone for the blood of my father." Tom Quick then promised to kill a hundred Delawares before he died. Quick killed Indians hunting, sleeping, eating, and drinking. He shot, tomahawked, stabbed, and bludgeoned Indians. He pushed Indians off of cliffs. He slaughtered them when sober and when drunk. He butchered men, women, and children, as well as whole families." ISBN 9780809095155

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