The last Indian war : the Nez Perce story
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The last Indian war : the Nez Perce story
（Pivotal moments in American history / series editors, David Hackett Fischer, James M. McPherson）
Oxford University Press, 2011, c2009
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"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback 2011"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
This 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. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope, of short-sighted government action and a doomed flight to freedom.
To tell the story, West begins with the early history of the Nez Perce and their years of friendly relations with white settlers. In an initial treaty, the Nez Perce were promised a large part of their ancestral homeland, but the discovery of gold led to a stampede of settlement within the Nez Perce land. Numerous injustices at the hands of the US government combined with the settlers' invasion to provoke this most accommodating of tribes to war. West offers a riveting account of what came
next: the harrowing flight of 800 Nez Perce, including many women, children and elderly, across 1500 miles of mountainous and difficult terrain. He gives a full reckoning of the campaigns and battles-and the unexpected turns, brilliant stratagems, and grand heroism that occurred along the way. And he
brings to life the complex characters from both sides of the conflict, including cavalrymen, officers, politicians, and-at the center of it all-the Nez Perce themselves (the Nimiipuu, "true people").
目次
- List of Illustrations and Maps
- Editor's Note
- Preface
- Timeline
- Part One
- Ch 1: Real People
- Ch 2: Marks of Friendship
- Ch 3: The Place of the Butterflies
- Ch 4: "God Named This Land to Us"
- Ch 5: Gold, Prophecy, and the Steal Treaty
- Ch 6: "Conquering by Kindness"
- Part Two
- Ch 7: "It Will Have to Be War!"
- Ch 8: Maneuvering and Scrapping
- Ch 9: Ways of Life, Ways of War
- Ch 10: Leaving Home
- Ch 11: Big Hole
- Ch 12: Toward Buffalo Country
- Ch 13: War in Wonderland
- Ch 14: "The Best Skirmishers in the World"
- Ch 15: Toward the Medicine Line
- Part Three
- Ch 16: Under the Bear's Paw
- Ch 17: Going to Hell
- Ch 18: Eeikish Pah and Return
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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