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A prelude to the Rogue River Wars...
A prelude to the Rogue River Wars...
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September 06, 1852
DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Sept. 6, 1852
* "Great Slasughter" at Table Rock
* Attack on a Takelma village
* Native Americans - Indians
Page 3 has: "A Great Slaughter of Indians" concerning a battle between whites and the Indians on the Rogue River. This was the night at Table Rock, one of the early encounters of what would become the Rogue River Wars.
Also: "Later From California" has various reports including; "...Business general was steady, and the mines were yielding abundantly...". Then: "Later From Texas".
Four pages, minor loss to a blank, upper corner, nice condition.
background: The September 6, 1852, edition of the Daily National Intelligencer serves as a grim ledger of American expansion, juxtaposing the violent displacement of indigenous peoples with the booming economic engines of the West. The "Great Slaughter" at Table Rock refers to an August skirmish where a volunteer militia, fueled by the tensions of the Oregon Gold Rush, attacked a Takelma village, an event that effectively shattered any hope for peaceful coexistence in the Rogue River Valley and set the stage for years of scorched-earth warfare. Meanwhile, the reports from California and Texas illustrate the "steady" industrialization that necessitated such violence; as individual prospecting gave way to systematic hydraulic mining and permanent settlement, the federal government used these dispatches to track the profitability of the frontier. By bundling news of a massacre alongside reports of "abundant" gold yields, the paper reflected a national mindset that viewed the destruction of native populations as a regrettable but necessary overhead cost for the country's rapid commercial and territorial growth.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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