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Massacre of the Conestogas: On the Trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County (PA)

Author Jack Brubaker
Publisher The History Press
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Author(s)Jack Brubaker
ISBN / ASIN1609490614
ISBN-139781609490614
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Sales Rank520,238
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On two chilly December days in 1763, bands of armed men raged through camps of peaceful Conestoga Indians. They killed twenty women, children and men, effectively wiping out the tribe. These murderous rampages by Lancaster County's Paxton Boys were the culminating tragedies in a series of traded atrocities between European settlers and native tribes. Lancaster journalist Jack Brubaker gives a blow-by-blow account of the massacres, examines their aftermath and investigates how the Paxton Boys got away with murder. Join Brubaker as he follows the bloody trail left by the killers through the Pennsylvania countryside.