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Synopsis
As friends of the white American, the Nez Perce Indians aided the exhausted explorers Lewis and Clark in 1805, only to be repeatedly misled by white treaties over the next seventy years. In 1877, a handful of renegade warriors struck back by massacring eighteen settlers in Idaho, setting off one of the bloddiest and most tragic Indian wars of the century.
This is the story of the dramatic 1200 mile chase through Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, in which some 800 Nez Perce men, women and children attempted to fight their way to freedom in Canada.
Having personally retraced the entire war route. Bruce Hampton evokes flesh-and-blood characters from both sides of the war with such immediacy that readers can almost feel the ground tremble under thousands of hooves and hear the anguished cries of the women and children who fell to U.S. army bullets.
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About the Author
A scholar of the American West, Bruce Hampton lives in Wyoming.
From Kirkus Reviews
A comprehensive, meticulously researched history of the 1877 war between the Nez Perce and the US government. For decades, the Nez Perce had befriended whites (including Lewis and Clark) who crossed their territory in what's now the Northwest; in turn, explorers and settlers had praised the Nez Perce's peaceful, patriarchal society. But when the federal government, breaking a number of treaties, demanded that the Nez Perce surrender their homeland and move onto reservations, the alliance shattered. Violence erupted with the massacre of 18 white settlers by a band of Nez Perce warriors, an atrocity described in vivid detail by Hampton (who teaches at the National Outdoor Leadership School in Wyoming). The US Army--an undisciplined, uneducated, poorly supplied force in those post-Civil War years- -swung into action, and the Nez Perce retreated into Montana, Wyoming, and Canada on a 1200-mile march punctuated by cruelty and kindness on both sides. Hampton offers an hour-by-hour account of the major battles, as well as crisp portraits of the principal figures in the conflict. At first, the Indians placed their hopes in the silver-tongued Chief Joseph, forever identified in the popular imagination with the Nez Perce cause, but the author makes it clear that the disaffected warriors soon turned to other chiefs like Poker Joe and Looking Glass. Meanwhile, against the Indians stood a number of notable cavalry officers, including Nelson Miles and Oliver Howard. The outcome was predictably sordid, as the few hundred remaining Nez Perce surrendered and suffered a long internment at Leavenworth Prison before returning, with their society in shambles, back to the Northwest. Exciting and fair-minded: the definitive account of a dark hour in American history. (Sixteen pages of b&w photographs--not seen) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherAvon Books
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0380724871
- ISBN 13 9780380724871
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