Marias Massacre

It is being closed by smallpox, by the systematic slaughter of the buffalo to starve the plains tribes, and by the relentless advance of the US Army.

The book culminates with the Marias Massacre of eighteen seventy, where the US Cavalry attacked a peaceful camp of Pikuni, killing nearly two hundred people, mostly women, children, and the elderly.

When you frame the central conflict of the West around an event like that, it completely obliterates the idea of a negotiation over property rights.

Absolutely.

Who is such an incredible character.

Goodstab is a fascinating figure, a vampire who is also a Blackfeet man driven by a ravenous hunger and seeking payment for the historical atrocity of the 1870 Marias Massacre.

But practically speaking, when you have a story within a journal within an academic framing device, print readers rely on visual cues.

Right, like changing fonts or indented margins.