The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0199769184 ISBN13: 9780199769186 Release Date: May 2011 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Length: 432 Pages Weight: 1.40 lbs. Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3" This newest 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 ac