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04599aam a22006138i 4500 001 78056F866BD611E98762EC4197128E48 003 SILO 005 20190501010039 008 190211s2019 meu db 000 0deng 010 $a 2019005804 020 $a 1432863827 020 $a 9781432863821 035 $a (OCoLC)1085577080 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d ORX $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 10 $a E83.877 $b .S49 2019 082 00 $a 979.5004/974124 $2 23 100 1 $a Sharfstein, Daniel J. $e author. 245 10 $a Thunder in the Mountains : $h [large print] / $b Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard and the Nez Perce War / $c by Daniel J. Sharfstein. 250 $a Large print edition. 263 $a 1904 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2019. 300 $a 861 pages (large print) ; $b index, $c 24 cm. 490 0 $a Thorndike press large print nonfiction 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmens Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the eras most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He was energized by the belief that abolition and Reconstruction, the countrys great struggles for liberty and equality, were Gods plan for himself and the nation. To honor his righteous commitment to a new American freedom, Howard University was named for him. 520 $a But as the nations 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 Reconstructions collapse, he assumed a new mission: forcing Native Americans to become Christian farmers on government reservations. 520 $a Howards 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 peoples 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. 520 $a Recreating the Nez Perce War through the voices of its survivors, Daniel J. Sharfsteins visionary history of the West casts Howards turn away from civil rights alongside the nations 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. 600 10 $a Howard, O. O. $q (Oliver Otis), $d 1830-1905. 600 00 $a Joseph $c (Nez PerceÌ Chief), $d 1840-1904 600 07 $a Joseph $c (Nez PerceÌ Chief), $d 1840-1904. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00050020 611 27 $a Indian Wars (Nez PerceÌ : 1877) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01696698 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 650 0 $a Nez PerceÌ Indians $x Wars, 1877 650 0 $a Indians of North America $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Political culture $z United States $x History $y 19th century 650 0 $a Large type books 650 7 $a Indians of North America $x Civil rights. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00969673 650 7 $a Large type books. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00992678 650 7 $a Nez PerceÌ Indians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01037222 650 7 $a Political culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069263 650 7 $a Race relations $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086519 651 0 $a United States $x History. $x Political aspects $x History. 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 3 945 $a lpt 952 $l EYPC755 $d 20240117011902.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20190711012743.0 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20190501010919.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=78056F866BD611E98762EC4197128E48 994 $a C0 $b UOKInitiate Another SILO Locator Search