The fictional love story of Heyets, amid the dark horror of the campaign of the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the Nez Perce war of 1877, describing the early history of the Nez Percé, their relationship with white settlers, the fraudulent treaties that took away their land, and the events that drove the formerly peaceful tribe to violence and led to the last great Native American conflict.

"In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian...

"War-Path and Bivouac is a stirring and detailed account of the Dakota Indian wars of 1876 and the Nez Perce Indian wars of 1877."--Back cover.

Shows events that led to the conflict in 1877 between the Nez Percé and the U.S. Army. Chief Joseph led the 300 Nez Percae braves, their women and children in the historic running battle against ten separate commands of the Army.

For over half a century the Nez Percés had lived in peace with their white neighbors. Now, in 1877, they were to be rewarded for their friendship by being moved to a reservation in Idaho. Gold had been discovered, and the red man had to make room for the prospector and the speculator.

This book grew out of a manuscript left by Andrew Garcia on his death in 1942. Ben Stein acquired the manuscript and edited it to tell Garcia's story of the 1877 war between the U.S. government and the Nez Perce people, the end of the buffalo herds and other historic events in western life.