Another
post, but about massacres and historical markers:
In
The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King he tells of a massacre marker in Almo, Idaho that was shocking to me because I had never heard of it. My father was one of the few people ever born in tiny Almo (in 1904). He and my grandmother (born in 1885 not far from Almo) were great story tellers, a dying art form but common in the days before television. In the dozens of stories of pioneer life that I remember, they never mentioned any massacres. Apparently I've never visited Almo so never saw the marker.
Had this massacre really occurred it would have been one of the worst ever, yet no mention was made of it before the 1920's.
http://sundown.afro.illinois.edu/sli...ay.php?slide=2
In future, I will view all historical markers with suspicion until I have fact-checked them.