This newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history.

• List of Illustrations and Maps


• Editor's Note


• Preface


• Timeline


• Part One


• Ch 1: Real People


• Ch 2: Marks of Friendship


• Ch 3: The Place of the Butterflies


• Ch 4: "God Named This Land to Us"


• Ch 5: Gold, Prophecy, and the Steal Treaty


• Ch 6: "Conquering by Kindness"


• Part Two


• Ch 7: "It Will Have to Be War!"


• Ch 8: Maneuvering and Scrapping


• Ch 9: Ways of Life, Ways of War


• Ch 10: Leaving Home


• Ch 11: Big Hole


• Ch 12: Toward Buffalo Country


• Ch 13: War in Wonderland


• Ch 14: "The Best Skirmishers in the World"


• Ch 15: Toward the Medicine Line


• Part Three


• Ch 16: Under the Bear's Paw


• Ch 17: Going to Hell


• Ch 18: Eeikish Pah and Return


• Epilogue


• Acknowledgements


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

Elliott West is Professor of American History at the University of Arkansas.