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The Resource Thunder in the mountains : Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard and the Nez Perce War, Daniel J. Sharfstein

Thunder in the mountains : Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard and the Nez Perce War, Daniel J. Sharfstein

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Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He was energized by the belief that abolition and Reconstruction, the country's great struggles for liberty and equality, were God's plan for himself and the nation. To honor his righteous commitment to a new American freedom, Howard University was named for him. But as the nation's politics curdled in the 1870s, General Howard exiled himself from Washington, D.C., rejoined the army, and was sent across the continent to command forces in the Pacific Northwest. Shattered by Reconstruction's collapse, he assumed a new mission: forcing Native Americans to become Christian farmers on government reservations. Howard's plans for redemption in the West ran headlong into the resistance of Chief Joseph, a young Nez Perce leader in northeastern Oregon who refused to leave his ancestral land. Claiming equal rights for Native Americans, Joseph was determined to find his way to the center of American power and convince the government to acknowledge his people's humanity and capacity for citizenship. Although his words echoed the very ideas about liberty and equality that Howard had championed during Reconstruction, in the summer of 1877 the general and his troops ruthlessly pursued hundreds of Nez Perce families through the stark and unforgiving Northern Rockies. An odyssey and a tragedy, their devastating war transfixed the nation and immortalized Chief Joseph as a hero to generations of Americans. Recreating the Nez Perce War through the voices of its survivors, Daniel J. Sharfstein casts Howard's turn away from civil rights alongside the nation's rejection of racial equality and embrace of empire. The conflict becomes a pivotal struggle over who gets to claim the American dream: a battle of ideas about the meaning of freedom and equality, the mechanics of American power, and the limits of what the government can and should do for its people
Language
eng
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Edition
Large print edition.
Extent
867 pages (large print)
Note
Large print edition does not include index
Contents
  • Prologue: The dreamers
  • A willing exile
  • New beginnings
  • Quite good friends
  • Winding waters
  • The wilderness of American power
  • Adonis in blue
  • Wind blowing
  • A sharp-sighted heart
  • Aloft
  • Split rocks
  • Fait accompli
  • A perfect panic
  • Death in ghastly forms
  • Bullets singing like bees
  • Heart of the monster
  • Lightning all around
  • Fury
  • A world of our own
  • Through the veil
  • Where the sun now stands
  • The best Indian
  • Red moon
  • A glorious era
  • Swing low
  • Epilogue: Acts of remembering
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9781432863821
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Thunder in the mountains : Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard and the Nez Perce War
Title
Thunder in the mountains
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Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard and the Nez Perce War
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Daniel J. Sharfstein
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Language
eng
Summary
Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He was energized by the belief that abolition and Reconstruction, the country's great struggles for liberty and equality, were God's plan for himself and the nation. To honor his righteous commitment to a new American freedom, Howard University was named for him. But as the nation's politics curdled in the 1870s, General Howard exiled himself from Washington, D.C., rejoined the army, and was sent across the continent to command forces in the Pacific Northwest. Shattered by Reconstruction's collapse, he assumed a new mission: forcing Native Americans to become Christian farmers on government reservations. Howard's plans for redemption in the West ran headlong into the resistance of Chief Joseph, a young Nez Perce leader in northeastern Oregon who refused to leave his ancestral land. Claiming equal rights for Native Americans, Joseph was determined to find his way to the center of American power and convince the government to acknowledge his people's humanity and capacity for citizenship. Although his words echoed the very ideas about liberty and equality that Howard had championed during Reconstruction, in the summer of 1877 the general and his troops ruthlessly pursued hundreds of Nez Perce families through the stark and unforgiving Northern Rockies. An odyssey and a tragedy, their devastating war transfixed the nation and immortalized Chief Joseph as a hero to generations of Americans. Recreating the Nez Perce War through the voices of its survivors, Daniel J. Sharfstein casts Howard's turn away from civil rights alongside the nation's rejection of racial equality and embrace of empire. The conflict becomes a pivotal struggle over who gets to claim the American dream: a battle of ideas about the meaning of freedom and equality, the mechanics of American power, and the limits of what the government can and should do for its people
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Sharfstein, Daniel J
Dewey number
979.5004/974124
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maps
Index
no index present
LC call number
E83.877
LC item number
.S49 2019
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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Thorndike press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Howard, O. O.
  • Joseph
  • Nez Percé Indians
  • United States
  • Indians of North America
  • Indians, Treatment of
  • Political culture
  • Manifest Destiny
  • United States
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Thunder in the mountains : Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard and the Nez Perce War, Daniel J. Sharfstein
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Copyright
Note
Large print edition does not include index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 691-891)
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
Prologue: The dreamers -- A willing exile -- New beginnings -- Quite good friends -- Winding waters -- The wilderness of American power -- Adonis in blue -- Wind blowing -- A sharp-sighted heart -- Aloft -- Split rocks -- Fait accompli -- A perfect panic -- Death in ghastly forms -- Bullets singing like bees -- Heart of the monster -- Lightning all around -- Fury -- A world of our own -- Through the veil -- Where the sun now stands -- The best Indian -- Red moon -- A glorious era -- Swing low -- Epilogue: Acts of remembering
Control code
on1085577080
Dimensions
25 cm.
Edition
Large print edition.
Extent
867 pages (large print)
Form of item
large print
Isbn
9781432863821
Lccn
2019005804
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
maps
System control number
(OCoLC)1085577080
Label
Thunder in the mountains : Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard and the Nez Perce War, Daniel J. Sharfstein
Publication
Copyright
Note
Large print edition does not include index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 691-891)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Prologue: The dreamers -- A willing exile -- New beginnings -- Quite good friends -- Winding waters -- The wilderness of American power -- Adonis in blue -- Wind blowing -- A sharp-sighted heart -- Aloft -- Split rocks -- Fait accompli -- A perfect panic -- Death in ghastly forms -- Bullets singing like bees -- Heart of the monster -- Lightning all around -- Fury -- A world of our own -- Through the veil -- Where the sun now stands -- The best Indian -- Red moon -- A glorious era -- Swing low -- Epilogue: Acts of remembering
Control code
on1085577080
Dimensions
25 cm.
Edition
Large print edition.
Extent
867 pages (large print)
Form of item
large print
Isbn
9781432863821
Lccn
2019005804
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
maps
System control number
(OCoLC)1085577080

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