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WHITE POISON
Were up to 3,000 Shasta Indians fed strychnine-laced beef and bread at a treaty-signing feast in far Northern California in 1851? And was this Gold Rush atrocity, with 10 times the death toll of Wounded Knee, somehow covered up and forgotten for a century and a half?
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Author
Michael Harris
Michael Harris grew up in Dunsmuir, CA, a small railroad town near the foot of Mount Shasta. His father was a freight conductor for the Southern Pacific. His mother taught in the Dunsmuir schools. In fact, she was his eighth-grade English teacher and showed him how to diagram a sentence. He received a B.A. in English and an ROTC commission at the University of Oregon.
Author
Michael Harris
Michael Harris grew up in Dunsmuir, CA, a small railroad town near the foot of Mount Shasta. His father was a freight conductor for the Southern Pacific. His mother taught in the Dunsmuir schools. In fact, she was his eighth-grade English teacher and showed him how to diagram a sentence. He received a B.A. in English and an ROTC commission at the University of Oregon.
Other Books
Romantic History
Two spectacularly mismatched young people meet at a halfway house in a Seattle suburb in 1971. Paul Siebert is a reporter, a shy, depressive Vietnam veteran, already chastened by the blows life has dealt him.
Postwar Children
In the early 1950s, the Southern Pacific Railroad no longer runs the state of California, as Frank Norris described it in “The Octopus.” It’s just another company. But in the little town of Dunsmuir, it still has enough power to force an injured brakeman, Frank Hiller, back to work to preserve its safety record, and Hiller, an angry man to begin with, passes the fear and pressure on to his wife and children.
Where Desert Rivers Die
Warren Holt has escaped his trailer-trash background through hard work and playing by the rules. But when he is unjustly fired by a Southern California newspaper, punches out a supervisor in a fit of rage and inadvertently kills the man, Holt’s middle-class dreams are destroyed.
The Chieu Hoi Saloon
Set against the backdrop of the riots sparked by the beating of African American motorist Rodney King, Vietnam vet and reporter Harry Hudson wanders the city to forget his troubled past. Trying to cope with the posttraumatic stress disorder that has plagued him since his military tour, the overweight, depressed, and sex-obsessed Hudson stumbles through the underbelly of South Central LA