The last Indian war : the Nez Perce story
Title:
The last Indian war : the Nez Perce story
Author:
West, Elliott, 1945-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Physical Description:
xxix, 397 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"The Nez Perce War of 1877 was the final great Indian conflict in American history."
Language:
English
Contents:
Real people -- Marks of friendship -- The place of the butterflies -- "God named this land to us" -- Gold, prophecy, and the Steal Treaty -- "Conquering by kindness" -- "It will have to be war!" -- Maneuvering and scrapping -- Ways of life, ways of war -- Leaving home -- Big hole -- Toward Buffalo country -- War in Wonderland -- "The best skirmishers in the world" -- Toward the medicine line -- Under the bear's paw -- Going to hell -- Eeikish Pan and return.
ISBN:
9780195136753
9780199769186
Format :
Book
