Author: Lucullus Virgil McWhorter
Publisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 9780870045554
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 746

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Alfred Warbrick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Auckland (N.Z. : Provincial District)
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: David Walter
Publisher: Farcountry Press
ISBN: 9781560372363
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Get Book Here

Book Description
Montana history at its wildest and most intriguing. These 15 stories--illustrated with historical photographs--flash with humor, action, indignation, amazement, and admiration for what some Montanans (and visitors) added to the state's story.

Author: Helen Addison Howard
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496204301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407

Get Book Here

Book Description
In Saga of Chief Joseph, Helen Addison Howard has written the definitive biography of the great Nez Perce chief, a diplomat among warriors. In times of war and peace, Chief Joseph exhibited gifts of the first rank as a leader for peace and tribal liberty. Following his people’s internment in Indian Territory in 1877, Chief Joseph secured their release in 1885 and led them back to their home country. Fiercely principled, he never abandoned his quest to have his country, the Wallowa Valley, returned to its rightful owners. The struggle of the Nez Perces for the freedom they considered paramount in life constitutes one of the most dramatic episodes in Indian history. This completely revised edition of the author’s 1941 version (titled War Chief Joseph) presents in exciting detail the full story of Chief Joseph, with a reevaluation of the five bands engaged in the Nez Perce War, told from the Indian, the white military, and the settler points of view. Especially valuable is the reappraisal, based on significant new material from Indian sources, of Joseph as a war leader. The new introduction by Nicole Tonkovich explores the continuing relevance of Chief Joseph and the lasting significance of Howard’s work during the era of Angie Debo, Alice Marriott, and Muriel H. Wright.

Author: Jerome A. Greene
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496236122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 578

Get Book Here

Book Description
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.

Author: Karl Jacoby
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520957938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Get Book Here

Book Description
Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author: Richard Hatfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 462

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: United States. National Park Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 638

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: United States. National Park Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Yellowstone National Park
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Mark Herbert Brown
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803260696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492

Get Book Here

Book Description
In the centuries of war between Indians and whites one episode is surely epical: the flight of the Nez Perce. Provoked by bad treaties and bitter memories, in 1877 a few Nez Perce raided homesteads in Idaho and killed their inhabitants. The raid quickly escalated into a series of skirmishes, and at last involved Chief Joseph and the ablest Nez Perce warriors in a prolonged chase by the army for over a thousand miles through Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. The band of Nez Perce astonished military experts by their tactical ingenuity, swift maneuvers, daring, and endurance. By the time the chase concluded, barely forty miles from the Canadian border, the Nez Perce had left behind a record of heroic sacrifices, spectacular escapes, and incredible courage.