Bitterroot
An American Epic
Published on 27. October 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-1-6667-4782-9 (ISBN)
Description
"From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." These words of Chief Joseph concluded a thousand-mile odyssey of 750 Nez Perce adults, children, and their elderly. Pursued by the US Army and Cavalry, the Nimiipuu fought battles, crossed the forbidding Bitterroot Mountains with their herds, and maintained their humanity and heritage against overwhelming odds. Bitterroot is dramatized history, giving voice to Joseph, Looking Glass, White Necklace, Half Man Half Woman, Howard "The Christian Soldier," Calamity Jane, and Yellowstone Kelley--providing a mirror with which to see ourselves today. It portrays a conflicted America: racism, religious intolerance, and greed at war with liberty and equality. Such an epic story reminds us of our common humanity. "It is for the young generation behind us," said Yellow Wolf. "I want the next generation of whites to know and treat the Indians as themselves."
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
427 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6667-4782-9 (9781666747829)
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10/2022
Wipf and Stock Publishers
€28.49
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Person
Kent Gramm is the author of Gettysburg: A Meditation on War and Values, November, Sharpsburg, Somebody's Darling, The Prayer of Jesus, three volumes of poetry, the novels Clare and Cars, and is co-author of Gettysburg: The Living and the Dead. He teaches Civil War Era studies at Gettysburg College.