LARGEST MASSACRE OF NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

Book release news- ECHOES OF A SILENT RIVER- A lonely Union soldier, a spiritually searching Shoshoni warrior, and a mixed race runaway slave woman meet in this fictional poetry prose narrative of the very real event of the Bear River Massacre in 1863.

(PRWEB) December 18, 2003 --
Dateline: Sunrise on January 29, 1863...

Near a small community in present day Idaho, the soldiers rode down from the bluffs surrounding Bear River with feet like ice, and guns loaded to kill. They had decided if they couldn't fight in the furious battles in the east, they would take their spoils wherever they could.

The Civil War is still raging in the eastern half of the United States. The Emancipation Proclamation has just been signed, and Mormon settlers had been living in the Salt Lake region for nearly 16 years. The morning sun peeked from behind a frozen dawn, and by sundown, the largest brutal massacre of Native Americans in the history of the United States had taken place.

Buried in the back pages of the nation's newspapers, the Bear River Massacre held little interest for the citizens across the country thousands of miles away. For the Northwestern band of the Shoshoni, the course of their own history would be changed forever...

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