Research Catalog

Title

The Nez Perces : the history of their troubles and the Campaign of 1877 / by Duncan McDonald ; edited by Robert Bigart and Joseph McDonald.

Author

McDonald, Duncan

Publication

Pablo, Montana : Salish Kootenai College Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors

• Bigart, Robert
• McDonald, Joseph, 1933-

Description

148 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

"This history of the Nez Perce War was written in 1878-79 by Duncan McDonald, a relative of Chief Looking Glass and the son of a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader and a Nez Perce Indian woman. McDonald spent most of his life on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. McDonald wrote the history based on interviews and family sources. In 1878 he traveled to Canada to interview Nez Perce chief White Bird and learn his side of the story. Remarkably, the history was published in a Deer Lodge, Montana, newspaper only a year or two after the war ended. McDonald's Nez Perce War history is published with a historical introduction and selection of his other essays on Indian affairs, in which he objects to the United States government's unjust treatment of northwest Indian tribes and condemns the threats of some Montana whites to attack Indians who were friendly to the settlers." -- Publisher's description

Subject

• Indian Wars (Nez Percé : 1877)
• Nez Percé Indians > Wars, 1877

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-144) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Duncan McDonald, 1849-1937 / by Joseph McDonald -- Duncan McDonald: Nez Perce war historian, 1877-1880 / by Robert Bigart and Joseph McDonald -- The Nez Perces: the history of their troubles and the Campaign of 1877 / by Duncan McDonald.

ISBN

• 9781934594162 (pbk.)
• 1934594164 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2016004247

OCLC

936234520

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library