Let Me Be Free: The Nez Perce TragedyIn Let Me Be Free, David Lavender tells the tragic story of the Nez Perce struggle against annihilation. Encroaching settlers and violent disputes resulted in the Nez Perce War of 1877, a desperate attempt by Chief Joseph and his small band of Nez Perce Indians from the Wallowa Mountains of Oregon to elude strong forces of U.S. Cavalry and civilian volunteers and escape to Canada. |
Contents
The Grave | 1 |
We The People | 8 |
The First Intrusions | 21 |
Rivalries and Seductions | 33 |
Minglings | 46 |
The Quest | 62 |
Rejection | 79 |
The Struggle for Souls | 98 |
Impasse | 193 |
Flurries | 208 |
The Antagonists | 219 |
Blood for Blood | 233 |
Evasions | 250 |
Blunders | 266 |
Bitter Fruit | 280 |
From Where the Sun Now Stands | 306 |
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