Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce
Subtitle: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: October 10, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780061136085
Subjects: United States - State & Local - West; Biography And Autobiography; Native Americans - History; History; History - General History; History: World; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; Native American; History / Native American; United States - 19th Century; Government relations; Indians, Treatment of; Nez Percâe Indians; Oregon; Wallowa County
First sentence: THE NEZ PERCE first encountered the European world, and the Europeans first encountered theirs, in a wide, pine-rimmed meadow in the foothills of the Bitterroot Mountains on a sunlit day in the autumn of 1805.