Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
xix, 345 pages : ill., maps, plates, portraits ; 24 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
Series |
The Civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 120 |
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Civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 120.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-330). |
Summary |
Describes the ways in which a small but powerful Indian tribe hindered the white settlement of Oregon and Washington. |
Contents |
An Imperial Tribe -- Heart of the Beaver -- Along the Communication -- A Strange New Thing -- Ill wind in the Rye Grass -- Ride a Pale Horse -- Bloody Cayuses -- The Cayuse War -- Wanted for Murder -- Cords of Vengeance -- Pent-up Tempest -- Speak Straight -- Rumblings of War -- The Volcano Erupts -- Broken Power -- Cayuses Corralled -- Outpost of a Dying Race -- Appendix A: White's Laws of the Nez Perces -- Appendix B: The Cayuse Indians' Letter to Governor Abernethy -- Appendix C: Reward Offered the Nez Perces for Capture of the Cayuse Murderers -- Appendix D: Indictment of Marcus Whiteman's Murderers -- Appendix E: Treaty With the Walla Wallas, Cayuses, and Others, 1855 |
Subject |
Whitman Massacre (1847) (OCoLC)fst01174840
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Cayuse Indians -- History.
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Whitman Massacre, 1847.
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Oregon -- History.
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Cayuses -- Historia.
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Cayuse Indians. (OCoLC)fst00849983
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Oregon. (OCoLC)fst01204579
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Chronological Term |
1847
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Added Author |
Brown, John A. (John Arthur), 1914-2004, author.
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Drury, Clifford Merrill, 1897-1984.
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ISBN |
0806109955 |
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9780806109954 |
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