Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway

“Augmenting years of research with his gift for compelling narrative, Louis Kraft delivers an unvarnished look at one of the most tragic and repulsive incidents in American history. More than 150 years later, the wounds have yet to heal. Kraft details the events leading up to the 1864 Sand Creek massacre—how it happened and why—and the aftermath. Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway is a book everyone should read.”—Johnny D. Boggs, author of Greasy Grass: The Story of the Little Bighorn
 

“Louis Kraft takes us beyond the two-dimensional argument of battle versus massacre and reminds us that Sand Creek was the beginning of the end of a centuries-old way of life.”—John Monnett, author of Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight: Indian Views
 

“Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway is a handsome book and is eloquently written by a man with a true passion for his subject. It should not be missed.”— Tombstone Epitaph
 

“Kraft’s most ambitious work to date.”— HistoryNet.com
 

“The author’s extensive research and attention to detail give the reader a full documentation of the complex web of events surrounding the massacre…Kraft has created an important piece of scholarship. Accumulating a remarkable amount of resources and distilling it into a little more than three hundred pages is impressive. His ability to craft an engaging and dramatic narrative speaks to his skill as a writer, his ability to do so out of a mountain of research speaks to his capabilities as a historian, and his ability to tap into the emotional depth of the events of this time period speak to us all.”—Journal of Arizona History
 

"This book is meticulously annotated, with detailed notes in which Kraft compares and contrasts past inconsistencies and errors made by his predecessors with solid research as he now tells a story that has long evaded a detailed analysis. . . As instructive as it is harrowing, the history recounted here lives on in the telling, along with a way of life destroyed in all but cultural memory." The Journal of Army History