Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West

by Blaine Harden

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Finalist for the 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award

“Terrific.” –Timothy Egan, The New York Times


A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath.Claudio Saunt, author of Unworthy Republic

From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, a “terrifically readable” (Los Angeles Times) account of one of the most persistent “alternative facts in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West


In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies...Read more
  • ISBN10 0525561668
  • ISBN13 9780525561668
  • Publish Date 27 April 2021
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Viking