Selling your father's bones
Subtitle: the epic fate of the American West
By: Brian Schofield.
Publisher: HarperPress
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780007242924
Subjects: Nez Percé Indians -- Wars, 1877.; Nez Percé Indians -- History.; Nez Percé Indians -- Government relations.; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890.
Description: "In 1877 the Nez Perce Native American tribe made one of the most remarkable journeys in the history of the American West. As ... European settlers [arrived] over the North-western frontier, 700 members of the tribe - elders, children, women and warriors - were forced top flee their ancestral homeland. They made a gruelling 1,700-mile exodus through epic terrain, fighting off the US Army as they went and rushing towards the safety of the Canadian border. Retracing [their] journey, Brian Schofield sets out to uncover the tribe's story. Travelling through modern-day timber towns and industrial wastelands of Idaho, Oregon and Wyoming, he confornts the destructive human and environmental legacy of the conquest of the American West and pieces together the ... story of the Nez Perce's struggle, and of the land they left behind"--Cover (pbk. ed.).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-398) and index.