The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story

By Elliott West

Categories: History

Elliott West recounts the history of the Nez Perce, who befriended Lewis and Clark in 1805 but lost land to gold seekers, and of the 1877 war in which bands resisting removal fled some 1,500 miles toward Canada, fighting the US Army. West places the war within a Greater Reconstruction in which the United States redefined citizenship and federal power following the Civil War, and follows Chief Joseph's surrender at Bear's Paw, exile to Indian Territory and Joseph's campaign for equal rights.

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