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100	1		_aSharfstein, Daniel J., _eauthor. _972683
245	1	0	_aThunder in the mountains : _bChief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard and the Nez Perce War / _cDaniel J. Sharfstein.
250			_aLarge print edition.
264		1	_aWaterville, Maine : _bThorndike Press, _c2019.
264		4	_c©2017.
300			_a867 pages (large print) : _bmaps ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 691-861)
505	0		_aPrologue: 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.
520			_aOliver 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.
600	0	0	_aJoseph _c(Nez Percé Chief), _d1840-1904. _972684
600	1	0	_aHoward, O. O. _q(Oliver Otis), _d1830-1909. _972685
650		0	_aIndians of North America _xCivil rights _xHistory _y19th century. _972686
650		0	_aIndians, Treatment of _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century. _972687
650		0	_aManifest Destiny. _972688
650		0	_aNez Percé Indians _xWars, 1877. _972689
650		0	_aPolitical culture _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century. _972690
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _y1865-1898. _972691
651		0	_aUnited States _xRace relations _xPolitical aspects _xHistory. _972692
655		0	_aCollective biographies. _972693
655		0	_aLarge type books. _9722
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