Full name: The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story

Author: Elliott West Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780199769186 0199769184

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"). This book is part of the "Pivotal Moments in American History" series. Here are some other books from this series: "Washington's Crossing" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "All Shook Up" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford The Contested Plains by Elliott West Trail of Tears by John Ehle In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers Custer's Fall by David Humphreys Miller Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose Men to Match My Mountains by Irving Stone Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides Cheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer