The Last Indian War The Nez Perce Story

by West, Elliott

• ISBN13: 9780195136753
• ISBN10: 0195136756
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Elliott West is Professor of American History at the University of Arkansas.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps	p. xi
Editor's Note	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
Timeline	p. xxvii
Real People	p. 3
Marks of Friendship	p. 20
The Place of the Butterflies	p. 35
"God Named This Land to Us"	p. 52
Gold, Prophecy, and the Steal Treaty	p. 75
"Conquering by Kindness"	p. 98
"It Will Have to Be War!"	p. 123
Maneuvering and Scrapping	p. 137
Ways of Life, Ways of War	p. 152
Leaving Home	p. 169
Big Hole	p. 186
Toward Buffalo Country	p. 201
War in Wonderland	p. 214
"The Best Skirmishers in the World"	p. 230
Toward the Medicine Line	p. 243
Under the Bear's Paw	p. 267
Going to Hell	p. 283
Eeikish Pah and Return	p. 301
Epilogue	p. 315
Acknowledgments	p. 322
A Note on Sources	p. 325
Notes	p. 329
Index	p. 381
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