The Last Indian War The Nez Perce Story
by West, ElliottEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-04-21
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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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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