Lost Wallowa, 1869-1879Tall Bird and John Crane are now old men, and they live on the Wallowa ranch with Tall Bird's family, where they must face the rising tide of anti-Indian sentiments in the wake of the Custer massacre and the rising greed of the near and distant neighbors in the wake of the discovery of gold. |
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A. C. Smith Army asked attack Bannocks battle Big Hole Bird's Bitter Root Valley brother Brown Bear buffalo country bullet cabin camp Captain Perry Chapman Chief Joseph Chief Looking Glass Chief White Bird Colonel Miles command Creek Crows Custer Cut-Arm Chief fight Findley fire Flatheads force Fort Keogh friends hand head hostiles Howard hundred Indians John Crane Joseph band killed knew Kooskia Lame Brown Bear land Lapwai leaders Lean Elk Lieutenant Wood live Lolo Trail Looking Glass Luke Crane McNall Monteith Mount Idaho mountains moved Nez Perce warriors Nimipu nontreaty Nez Perces Ollokot peace Peo-peo ride rifle pit rode scouts shelter shoot shot Sioux Sitting Bull Snake soldiers surrender Swift Bird talk Tall Bird Targhee Pass tepee Too-hool-hool-zote trail troops village volunteers Walla Wallowa country White Bird Canyon white settlers women Wot-tol-en wounded Yellow Wolf young