The Story Of Chief Joseph
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Author | : Helen Addison Howard |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1978-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803272026 |
Dramatically recreates the life of the Indian chief who led the Nez Perces in their last, disasterous campaign against the white man
Author | : Lois Warburton |
Publisher | : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781560060307 |
A biography of the Nez Percé Indian chief who led his people in a flight from their Oregon lands to Canada in 1877.
Author | : Daniel J. Sharfstein |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2017-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393634183 |
“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”—Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877 After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued hundreds of Nez Perce families who resisted moving onto a reservation. Standing in his way was Chief Joseph, a young leader who never stopped advocating for Native American sovereignty and equal rights. Thunder in the Mountains is the spellbinding story of two legendary figures and their epic clash of ideas about the meaning of freedom and the role of government in American life.
Author | : Agnieszka Biskup |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2010-12 |
Genre | : Graphic novels |
ISBN | : 1429662700 |
"In graphic novel format, explores the battles and hardships faced by Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce when they were forced to leave their homelands"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Elliott West |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2011-05-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199831033 |
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 accomodating 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"). The book sheds light on the war's legacy, including the near sainthood that was bestowed upon Chief Joseph, whose speech of surrender, "I will fight no more forever," became as celebrated as the Gettysburg Address. Based on a rich cache of historical documents, from government and military records to contemporary interviews and newspaper reports, The Last Indian War offers a searing portrait of a moment when the American identity--who was and who was not a citizen--was being forged.
Author | : Vanessa Ann Gunther |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-07-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0313379203 |
Chronicles the life of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians, discussing his interactions with Lewis and Clark, his reaction to the white settlers changing his tribe's way of life, his efforts to help his people through the loss of their land and freedom, and the myths that surround his life.
Author | : Bill McAuliffe |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780736884266 |
The story of Chief Joseph, the Nez Perce Native American leader who tried but failed to get his people into Canada in 1877 so that they would not be sent to a reservation.
Author | : Alan E. Grey |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 080326934X |
Originally published: Idaho Falls, Ida.: Wasatch Press, c2008.
Author | : Robert Penn Warren |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 2015-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803299273 |
In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular misconceptions, including some concerning Abraham Lincoln and the issue of slavery. The war in all its facets "grows in our consciousness," arousing complex emotions and leaving "a gallery of great human images for our contemplation."
Author | : Joseph Pfeifer |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0593330250 |
New York Times Bestseller From the first FDNY chief to respond to the 9/11 attacks, an intimate memoir and a tribute to those who died that others might live When Chief Joe Pfeifer led his firefighters to investigate an odor of gas in downtown Manhattan on the morning of 9/11, he had no idea that his life was about to change forever. A few moments later, he watched as the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center. Pfeifer, the closest FDNY chief to the scene, spearheaded rescue efforts on one of the darkest days in American history. Ordinary Heroes is the unforgettable and intimate account of what Chief Pfeifer witnessed at Ground Zero, on that day and the days that followed. Through his eyes, we see the horror of the attack and the courage of the firefighters who ran into the burning towers to save others. We see him send his own brother up the stairs of the North Tower, never to return. And we walk with him and his fellow firefighters through weeks of rescue efforts and months of numbing grief, as they wrestle with the real meaning of heroism and leadership. This gripping narrative gives way to resiliency and a determination that permanently reshapes Pfeifer, his fellow firefighters, NYC, and America. Ordinary Heroes takes us on a journey that turns traumatic memories into hope, so we can make good on our promise to never forget 9/11.