Native American and Western Expansion History New York Daily Tribune Report on Stein’s Peak Arizona in 1861

Native Americans

Periodical

Greeley, Horace. New York Daily Tribune, June 8, 1861, contains Civil War era reporting on violence along the Arizona frontier, supporting research into western expansion, settler newspaper rhetoric, and nineteenth-century representations of Native conflict in the national press. The issue appeared during the first months of the Civil War, when eastern newspapers continued to print reports from western territories alongside military and political news from the Union and Confederacy.

New York Daily Tribune. New York, New York. June 8, 1861. Complete issue. Page seven includes the article “Horrible Indian Massacre at Stein’s Peak, Arizona,” reporting that “Nine men are missing” and describing fears that they had been killed or held prisoner. The article’s language, including its reference to “Indian barbarities,” is historically significant as evidence of how Indigenous violence and frontier conflict were framed for eastern readers through sensational and racialized newspaper prose.

Complete historic newspaper issue with article on page seven. Some wear and minor tears at folds; very good. Strong Civil War era newspaper issue documenting how Arizona frontier violence entered national print culture in 1861.

Item #5684

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