Moment of Indiana History
A Californian from the age of six, writer Jessamyn West answered to a Hoosier muse. Having left Vernon, Indiana with her family in 1908 to resettle in southern California, West is best remembered for her fictional accounts of pioneer life in Indiana.
The prevailing attitude on the frontier was that killing Indians was not a crime, but this massacre sparked a fierce moral debate.
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