In Pursuit Of The Nez Perces
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Author |
: Alvin M. Josephy |
Publisher |
: Bison Books |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2007-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCR:31210022784902 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nez Perce Country by : Alvin M. Josephy
The rivers, canyons, and prairies of the Columbia Basin are the homeland of the Nez Perce. The Nez Perce, or Nimiipuu, inhabited much of what is now north central Idaho and portions of Oregon and Washington for thousands of years. The story of how western settlement drastically affected the Nimiipuu is one of the great and at times tragic sagas of American history. Renowned western historian Alvin M. Josephy Jr. describes the Nimiipuu’s attachment to the land and their way of life, religion, and vibrant culture. He also chronicles the western expansion that displaced them, beginning with the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805 and followed by the influx of traders and trappers, then miners and farmers. Josephy traces the ill fortune of the Nez Perce as their homeland was carved up by treaties, creating an atmosphere of hostility that would culminate in the Nez Perce war of 1877 and conclude with Chief Joseph’s famous pronouncement: “I will fight no more forever.” Despite the challenges of the past, the Nimiipuu have maintained their ties to the land. In his introduction to the book, Jeremy FiveCrows details how the tribe has fought for self government to undo the damage wrought by shortsighted practices.
Author |
: Bruce Hampton |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2002-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0803273347 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780803273344 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Children of Grace by : Bruce Hampton
Although the Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) Indians gave instrumental help to Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition, they were rewarded by decades of invasive treaties and encroachment upon their homeland. In June 1877, the Nez Perce struck back andøwere soon swept into one of the most devastating Indian wars in American history. The conflict culminated in an epic twelve-hundred-mile chase as the U.S. Army pursued some eight hundred Nez Perce men, women, and children, who tried to fight their way to freedom in Canada. In this enthralling account of the Nez Perce War, Bruce Hampton brings to life unforgettable characters from both sides of the conflict?warriors and women, common soldiers and celebrated generals. Looking Glass, White Bird, the legendary Chief Joseph, and fewer than three hundred warriors waged a bloody guerilla war against a modernized American army commanded by such famous generals as William Tecumseh Sherman, Nelson Miles, Oliver Otis Howard, and Philip Sheridan. Hampton also gives voice to the Native Americans from other tribes who helped the U.S. Army block the escape of the Nez Perce to Canada.
Author |
: Kevin Carson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1594165394 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781594165399 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Long Journey of the Nez Perce by : Kevin Carson
Author |
: Elliott West |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 428 |
Release |
: 2011-05-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199831036 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199831033 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Last Indian War by : Elliott West
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. 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 accomodating 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"). The book sheds light on the war's legacy, including the near sainthood that was bestowed upon Chief Joseph, whose speech of surrender, "I will fight no more forever," became as celebrated as the Gettysburg Address. Based on a rich cache of historical documents, from government and military records to contemporary interviews and newspaper reports, The Last Indian War offers a searing portrait of a moment when the American identity--who was and who was not a citizen--was being forged.
Author |
: Duncan McDonald |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89060402088 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis In Pursuit of the Nez Perces by : Duncan McDonald
Author |
: Jerome A. Greene |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2012-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780806185644 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0806185643 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond Bear's Paw by : Jerome A. Greene
In the fall of 1877, Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) Indians were desperately fleeing U.S. Army troops. After a 1,700-mile journey across Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, the Nez Perces headed for the Canadian border, hoping to find refuge in the land of the White Mother, Queen Victoria. But the army caught up with them at the Bear’s Paw Mountains in northern Montana, and following a devastating battle, Chief Joseph and most of his people surrendered. The wrenching tale of Chief Joseph and his followers is now legendary, but Bear’s Paw is not the entire story. In fact, nearly three hundred Nez Perces escaped the U.S. Army and fled into Canada. Beyond Bear’s Paw is the first book to explore the fate of these “nontreaty” Indians. Drawing on hitherto unexplored Canadian and U.S. sources, including reminiscences of Nez Perce participants, Jerome A. Greene presents an epic story of human endurance under duress. Greene vividly describes the tortuous journey of the small band who managed to elude Colonel Nelson A. Miles’s command. After the escapees crossed the “Medicine Line” into the British Possessions, they found only new trauma. Within a few years, most of them stole back to their homelands in Idaho Territory. Those who remained north of the line faced a difficult and uncertain future. In recent years, Nimiipuu descendants from the United States and Canada have revisited their common past and sought reconciliation. Beyond Bear’s Paw offers new perspectives on the Nez Perces’ struggle for freedom, their hapless rejection, and their ultimate cultural renewal.
Author |
: Alvin M. Josephy |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 742 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0395850118 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780395850114 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest by : Alvin M. Josephy
This is the story of the so-called Inland Empire of teh Northwest, that rugged and majestic region bounded east and west by the Cascades and the Rockies, from the time of the great exploration of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877. Explorers, fur traders, miner, settlers, missionaries, ranchers and above all a unique succession of Indian chiefs and their tribespeople bring into focus one of the permanently instructive chapters in the history of the American West.
Author |
: Lucullus Virgil McWhorter |
Publisher |
: Caxton Press |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0870044915 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780870044915 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Yellow Wolf, His Own Story by : Lucullus Virgil McWhorter
"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press" The Nez Perce campaign is among the most famous in the brief and bloody history of the Indian wars of the West.a Yellow Wolf was a contemporary of Chief Joseph and a leader among his own men.a His story is one that had never been told and will never be told again.a A first person account, through author L.V. McWhorter of the Nez Perce's ill-fated battle for land and freedom. "
Author |
: William T. Vollmann |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 1378 |
Release |
: 2016-07-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780143109402 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0143109405 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dying Grass by : William T. Vollmann
From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central – a dazzling fictional account of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians In this fifth installment in his acclaimed Seven Dreams series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn the previous year, as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann’s main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil War veteran. In this novel, we see him as commander, father, son, husband, friend, and killer. Teeming with many vivid characters on both sides of the conflict, and written in an original style in which the printed page works as a stage with multiple layers of foreground and background, The Dying Grass is another mesmerizing achievement from one of the most ambitious writers of our time.
Author |
: Terri Reed |
Publisher |
: Steeple Hill |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2010-04-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781426855757 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1426855753 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Covert Pursuit by : Terri Reed
Boston homicide detective Angie Carlucci thought she was getting a much-needed vacation. But her Florida Keys holiday is interrupted when she sees someone dump a body bag in the ocean. In the tangle between arms dealers and treasure hunters, she's the only witness—and the main target. Unless a certain boat captain can keep her safe… A pretty cop complicating his mission—and endangering his cover— is the last thing federal agent Jason Bodwell needs. Yet the more Jason and Angie work together, the closer they grow. Jason's willing to risk his life to solve the case…what will he risk for love?