And the River Ran Red

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SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLER

January 29, 1863. United States Army troops attack a Shoshoni village on the banks of the Bear River in what is now southeastern Idaho. Four hours later, the army abandons the field, leaving behind the dead bodies of some three hundred men, women, and children. This all-but-forgotten massacre stands today as the worst killing of Indians by the military in the history of the American West.

In the pages of And the River Ran Red, four-time Spur Award–winning author Rod Miller puts human faces and feelings on this incomparable tragedy. Follow Shoshoni leaders Bear Hunter and Sagwitch, military officers Colonel Patrick Edward Connor and Major Edward F. McGarry, Mormon leader Brigham Young, and frontiersman Porter Rockwell in a tapestry of intrigue and violence leading up to the massacre, and its aftermath.

Chilling in its detail, scrupulous in its portrayal of history, And the River Ran Red sheds light on a dark day that deserves to come out of the shadows and find its place in the history of the West.


 

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Prologue
Chapter Three
Chapter Five
Chapter
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
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Chapter Eleven
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter TwentyTwo
Chapter TwentyFive
Chapter TwentySeven
Chapter TwentyNine
Chapter ThirtyOne

Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Epilogue
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Rod Miller is a four-time winner and six-time finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award, recognized for novels, short stories, poems, and a song. He writes fiction, poetry, and history related to the American West, and his work has been featured in numerous anthologies and magazines. Read more at writerRodMiller.com and writerRodMiller.blogspot.com. And be sure to visit RawhideRobinson.com.

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