Author: Buell Halvor QuainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Flight of the Chiefs
Author: Buell Halvor QuainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Flight of the Chiefs
Author: Buell H. QuainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry, Fijian
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce
Author: Kent NerburnPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061741213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark lies another journey every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, and every bit as essential to an understanding of who we are as a nation -- the 1,800-mile journey made by Chief Joseph and eight hundred Nez Perce men, women, and children from their homelands in what is now eastern Oregon through the most difficult, mountainous country in western America to the high, wintry plains of Montana. There, only forty miles from the Canadian border and freedom, Chief Joseph, convinced that the wounded and elders could go no farther, walked across the snowy battlefield, handed his rifle to the U.S. military commander who had been pursuing them, and spoke his now-famous words, "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." The story has been told many times, but never before in its entirety or with such narrative richness. Drawing on four years of research, interviews, and 20,000 miles of travel, Nerburn takes us beyond the surrender to the captives' unlikely welcome in Bismarck, North Dakota, their tragic eight-year exile in Indian Territory, and their ultimate return to the Northwest. Nerburn reveals the true, complex character of Joseph, showing how the man was transformed into a myth by a public hungry for an image of the noble Indian and how Joseph exploited the myth in order to achieve his single goal of returning his people to their homeland. Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce is far more than the story of a man and a people. It is a grand saga of a pivotal time in our nation's history. Its pages are alive with the presence of Lewis and Clark, General William Tecumseh Sherman, General George Armstrong Custer, and Sitting Bull. Its events brush against the California Gold Rush, the Civil War, the great western pioneer migration, and the building of the telegraph and the transcontinental railroad. Once you have read this groundbreaking work, you will never look at Chief Joseph, the American Indian, or our nation's westward journey in the same way again.
The Flight of the Chiefs. Epic Poetry of Fiji, Etc
Author: Buell Halvor QUAINHear Me, My Chiefs!
Author: Lucullus Virgil McWhorterPublisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 9780870045554
Category : Americana
Languages : fr
Pages : 746
Book Description
Secretaries and chiefs of staff of the United States Air Force
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428990461
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Department of Defense Appropriations for 1977: Secretary of Defense; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Secretary of the Air Force and Chief of Staff; Central Intelligence Agency
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of DefensePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
The Air Reservist
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Airman
Author: Naval Aviation News
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description