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I will fight No More Forever--Chief Joseph Nez P
Category: History: U.S.: Northwest
Author: Merrill D. Beal
Copyright/published Year: 1971 by Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345321316
Binding: Mass Mark
"I Will Fight No More Forever"
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War
Unpublished letters and diaries by eyewitnesses, interviews
with decedents, an intimate knowledge of the country enrich this
narrative of the heroic Nez Perce Indian War waged in 1877
against relocation.
The result is a well documented chronicle offering new
perspective on prewar Indian-white relations, United States
government pressures and nontreaty rebellions, the five battles,
subjection and surrender, and on the character of the leaders on
both sides.
"From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever,"
Chief Joseph said in surrender. But as a guardian and protector
of his people he at last succeeded in bringing back the remaining
members of his tribe to their beloved valley.
Calling Professor Beal's book, "definitive, but not final,"
Herman J. Deutsch, professor emeritus of American history at
Washington State University, writes in the foreword: "Joseph and
his band remain an example and inspiration to those who today are
seeking recognition as human beings, equal in the sight of God
and therefore entitled to like status among men. Those who
recognize that such aspirations must not for long remain
unfulfilled can derive from Nez Perce history examples of the
consequences of policies conceived in ignorance and colored with
disdain of the culture and way of life of minority peoples. ...A
world surfeited with deceptive success stories can ill afford to
forget a people and their leader who attained their true moral
stature as they were facing their doom."
Condition Information
This is a used book.
Good condition.
Condition Description
8th Printing: May 1984. some of spine printing is wearing off. Sound binding. tanning to page ends, inside covers. (Cover design may vary from that shown.)
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