[PDF] Chief Joseph The Nez Perce eBook

Author : Daniel J. Sharfstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0393634183

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“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”—Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877 After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued hundreds of Nez Perce families who resisted moving onto a reservation. Standing in his way was Chief Joseph, a young leader who never stopped advocating for Native American sovereignty and equal rights. Thunder in the Mountains is the spellbinding story of two legendary figures and their epic clash of ideas about the meaning of freedom and the role of government in American life.

Author : Agnieszka Biskup
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 21,40 MB
Release : 2010-12
Category : Graphic novels
ISBN : 1429662700

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"In graphic novel format, explores the battles and hardships faced by Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce when they were forced to leave their homelands"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Diane Shaughnessy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780823951116

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A biography of the great Nez Percae chief who, struggling desperately to keep his tribe safe and free, led them on a flight to Canada.

Author : Robert Penn Warren
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 2015-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0803299273

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In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular misconceptions, including some concerning Abraham Lincoln and the issue of slavery. The war in all its facets "grows in our consciousness," arousing complex emotions and leaving "a gallery of great human images for our contemplation."

Author : Bill Gulick
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN :

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From their meeting with Lewis and Clark in 1805 to the death of Chief Joseph in 1904, the story of the Nez Perce Indians is epic drama. No setting could be more spectacular than the rugged, beautiful homeland of this tribe. The Nez Perce friendship with white newcomers ended in the tragically bitter Nez Perce War. The participants in the developing drama tell the story in their own words, through excerpts from diaries, letters and contemporary accounts.

Author : Bill McAuliffe
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 31,72 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736884266

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The story of Chief Joseph, the Nez Perce Native American leader who tried but failed to get his people into Canada in 1877 so that they would not be sent to a reservation.

Author : Elliott West
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0199831033

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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 : Lois Warburton
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781560060307

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A biography of the Nez Percé Indian chief who led his people in a flight from their Oregon lands to Canada in 1877.

Author : Jerome A. Greene
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1496234480

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Nez Perce Summer, 1877 tells the story of a people's epic struggle to survive spiritually, culturally, and physically in the face of unrelenting military force. Written by one of the foremost experts in frontier military history, Jerome A. Greene, and reviewed by members of the Nez Perce tribe, this definitive treatment of the Nez Perce War is the first to incorporate research from all known accounts of Nez Perce and U.S. military participants. Enhanced by sixteen detailed maps and forty-nine historic photographs, Greene's gripping narrative takes readers on a three-and-one-half month 1,700-mile journey across the wilds of Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana territories. All of the skirmishes and battles of the war receive detailed treatment, which benefits from Greene's astute analysis of the strategies and decision making on both sides. Between 100 and 150 of the more than 800 Nez Perce men, women, and children who began the trek were killed during the war. Almost as many died in the months following the surrender, after they were exiled to malaria-ridden northeastern Oklahoma. Army deaths numbered 113. The casualties on both sides were an extraordinary price for a war that nobody wanted but whose history has since fascinated generations of Americans.