Record details

• ISBN: 9780345248404
• Physical Description: xviii, 398 pages : map, photographs ; 18 cm
• Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [1975, ©1963]

Content descriptions

General Note:

This edition published by arrangement with the University of Washington Press. Prepared under the terms of a cooperative agreement between the National Park Service and Idaho State College.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references 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 the 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 no more forever" ; 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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Joseph (Nez Percé Chief), 1840-1904.
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