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Yellow Wolf : his own story

Title
Yellow Wolf : his own story / by Lucullus Virgil McWhorter ; illustrated with original photographs.
Author
Yellow Wolf, 1855-1935.
Publication
Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers, ©1940.

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Additional Authors
McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil, 1860-1944
Description
324 pages, 35 unnumbered pages of plates : frontispiece, plates, portraits; 24 cm
Summary
The Nez Perce Indian War was the outstanding front-page story in American newspapers during the late summer of 1877. Chief Joseph's supposedly impossible retreat from Idaho into Montana across the impregnable Bitterroots was a piece of military strategy so spectacular as to elicit comparisons with the greatest of Napoleon's maneuvers. It is fitting that Yellow Wolf, the last great Nez Perce warrior, should be the one to reveal the entire history of the Nez Perce revolt against oppression, their ultimate gesture against the loss of their immemorial homeland, as it culminated in this dramatic struggle. In addition to Yellow Wolf's day-by-day account of the entire war, this volume includes a special appendix of more than a dozen eye-witness narratives by Indians who witnessed the decisive battle of the Big Hole.
Subject
  • Yellow Wolf, 1855-1935
  • 1877
  • Nez Percé Indians > Wars, 1877 > Personal narratives
  • Indians of North America > Northwest, Pacific > Biography
  • Indians of North America
  • Nez Percé Indians
  • Nimíipuu (Indigenous people)
  • Pacific Northwest
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Personal narratives.
Note
  • Map on lining-papers.
  • "It has been my high privilege to be the instrument for recording and bringing to publication the verified and corroborated narrative of Yellow Wolf."--Introd. signed: L. V. McW.
  • "Glossary": p. 317-321.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 313-315.
Contents
Youth of the warrior -- General Howard "Shows the rifle" -- Battle of the White Bird Canyon -- Annihilation of Rains's scouting party -- Fight with Captain Randall's volunteers and its sequel -- Battle of the Clearwater -- Indian withdrawal from the Clearwater -- Across the Lolo Trail and into Montana -- At the Big Hole: Surprise attack -- At the Big Hole: Savagery of the whites -- Closing scenes at the Big Hole -- From the Big Hole to Camas Meadows -- Into Yellowstone National Park -- The Canyon Creek fight -- Northward across the Missouri -- Forty-eight hours from freedom -- The last stand: Bear's Paw Battlefield -- The last day: The surrender -- pt. 2. The fugitive -- Flight to the Sioux -- Turning back to the old home -- A sanguinary trail -- Soldiers against Indians -- A voluntary surrender -- Eeikish Pah: The hot place.
LCCN
41003261
OCLC
  • ocm06572186
  • 6572186
  • SCSB-113659
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library