Record details

• ISBN: 0295740094
• ISBN: 9780295740096
• Physical Description: xvii, 366 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 21 cm
• Edition: Washington pbk. ed.
• Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1966, ©1963.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-357) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

From peace to war. The Nez Perces at home ; A golden age of Indian relations ; Indian treaties and controversies ; On the warpath -- The campaign in Idaho. The Battle of White Bird Canyon ; Aftermaths, skirmishes, and repercussions ; The Battle of Clearwater -- Crossing the Bitterroot Ranges. Crossing the Lolo Trail ; Affairs at Fort Fizzle and in Montana ; From Lolo Creek to the Big Hole Basin ; The Battle of the Big Hole ; Casualties, evaluations, and reactions ; Incidents on the route to Camas Meadows ; The raid and battle of Camas Meadows ; On to Yellowstone National Park ; Indians and soldiers cross the park -- Flight toward Canada. Escaping the Absaroka blockade ; The Battle of Canyon Creek ; From the Musselshell to the Bear Paw Range -- Seventh Cavalry Success. Colonel Nelson A. Miles enters the campaign ; The Battle of Bear Paws ; "I will fight forever no more" ; A summary of the Nez Perce campaign -- Exile decreed, applied, and abandoned. Trails of triumph and tears ; Survival in exile ; Epical twilights.

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Nez Percé Indians > Wars, 1877.
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