‘Oz’ author sought Indian genocide. L. Frank Baum wrote, a decade before the publication of ‘The Wizard…’:

The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies, inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession,

lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With this fall the nobility of the redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of

whining curs.

“The whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier

settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians.

“Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they die than live the miserable

wretches that they are. We cannot honestly regret their extermination. Lawrence (KS) Journal-World