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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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"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. Re-creating the Nez Perce War through the voices of its survivors, Daniel J. Sharfstein's visionary history of the West 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. The war that Howard and Joseph fought is one that Americans continue to fight today."--Jacket
Language
eng
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Edition
First edition.
Extent
xvii, 613 pages
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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9780393239416
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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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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. Re-creating the Nez Perce War through the voices of its survivors, Daniel J. Sharfstein's visionary history of the West 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. The war that Howard and Joseph fought is one that Americans continue to fight today."--Jacket
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Sharfstein, Daniel J
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  • Howard, O. O.
  • Joseph
  • Howard, O. O.
  • Joseph
  • Howard, Oliver Otis
  • Joseph, Nez Percé Chief
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
  • Nez Percé Indians
  • Indians of North America
  • Indians, Treatment of
  • Manifest Destiny
  • Political culture
  • United States
  • United States
  • Indians of North America
  • HISTORY
  • HISTORY
  • HISTORY
  • HISTORY
  • Manifest Destiny
  • Indians, Treatment of
  • Indians of North America
  • Nez Percé Indians
  • Political culture
  • Race relations
  • United States
  • Indigenes Volk
  • Nez Percé
  • Nez-Percé-Krieg
  • Indianerkriege
  • 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-592) and index
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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
951070818
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xvii, 613 pages
Isbn
9780393239416
Lccn
2016055352
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • n
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Master record variable field(s) change: 520
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40027046310
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maps
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regular print
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(OCoLC)951070818
Label
Thunder in the Mountains : Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War, Daniel J. Sharfstein
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-592) and index
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
951070818
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xvii, 613 pages
Isbn
9780393239416
Lccn
2016055352
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
Master record variable field(s) change: 520
Other control number
40027046310
Other physical details
maps
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)951070818

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