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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 May 2011
- ISBN 9780199769186
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 237x155x29 mm
- Weight 549 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 40 halftones 0
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Short description:
This newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history.
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This volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope, of short-sighted government action and a doomed flight to freedom.
To tell the story, West begins with the early history of the Nez Perce and their years of friendly relations with white settlers. In an initial treaty, the Nez Perce were promised a large part of their ancestral homeland, but the discovery of gold led to a stampede of settlement within the Nez Perce land. Numerous injustices at the hands of the US government combined with the settlers' invasion to provoke this most accommodating of tribes to war. West offers a riveting account of what came next: the harrowing flight of 800 Nez Perce, including many women, children and elderly, across 1500 miles of mountainous and difficult terrain. He gives a full reckoning of the campaigns and battles--and the unexpected turns, brilliant stratagems, and grand heroism that occurred along the way. And he brings to life the complex characters from both sides of the conflict, including cavalrymen, officers, politicians, and--at the center of it all--the Nez Perce themselves (the Nimiipuu, "true people").
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations and Maps
Editor's Note
Preface
Timeline
Part One
Ch 1: Real People
Ch 2: Marks of Friendship
Ch 3: The Place of the Butterflies
Ch 4: "God Named This Land to Us"
Ch 5: Gold, Prophecy, and the Steal Treaty
Ch 6: "Conquering by Kindness"
Part Two
Ch 7: "It Will Have to Be War!"
Ch 8: Maneuvering and Scrapping
Ch 9: Ways of Life, Ways of War
Ch 10: Leaving Home
Ch 11: Big Hole
Ch 12: Toward Buffalo Country
Ch 13: War in Wonderland
Ch 14: "The Best Skirmishers in the World"
Ch 15: Toward the Medicine Line
Part Three
Ch 16: Under the Bear's Paw
Ch 17: Going to Hell
Ch 18: Eeikish Pah and Return
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
