Marks, Paula Mitchell

Presents a narrative of the gunfight, of the tensions leading up to it, and of the events that followed.

Examines the loss of lands and culture suffered by Native Americans over the centuries, from 1607 to the end of the twentieth-century putting contemporary issues into historical context.

Chronicles the experience of the hundreds of thousands of gold seekers who converged upon the American and Canadian West during America's gold-rush era, 1848-1900.