Halfbreed
Halfbreed
Da Capo Press | January 6, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0306813203 | 496 pages | PDF | 24.1 MB
Da Capo Press | January 6, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0306813203 | 496 pages | PDF | 24.1 MB
The son of white Southwest trader William Bent and his Cheyenne spouse, Owl Woman, George Bent (1843-1918) receives rich biographical treatment from Halaas (former Library of Congress historian and now director of Pittsburgh's Heinz History Center) and Masich (president and CEO of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania). They show Bent growing up more attuned to his mother's culture than his father's, but receiving a conventional white-world. education at the latter's insistence. George was in St. Louis when the Civil War broke out and promptly joined the Confederate Army. He later deserted, returned to the camps of the now beleaguered Southern Cheyenne and survived the horrifying Sand Creek Massacre of noncombatant Cheyenne by Colorado militia.