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    Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
    Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
    Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
    Audiobook18 hours

    Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War

    Written by Daniel Sharfstein

    Narrated by Joe Barrett

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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.

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 4, 2017
    ISBN9781515986652
    Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War

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    • 3/5
      Your memory from US history of the life of Chief Joseph will be shaken by this history of the Nez Perce War. The book seemed to have a lot of extraneous information, especially in the first third of the book.
    • 5/5
      This is a well researched parallel biography of Chief Joseph the inspirational leader of the Nez Perce tribe in the American Northwest and Oliver Otis Howard the man chiefly responsible for trying to force the Nez Perce onto a reservation. Chief Joseph fights him both militarily and politically but ultimately loses. With regard to Oliver Howard the book goes into his Civil War service (He loses and arm), his experience as a leader in the Freedman's Bureau, his Native American campaigns and later life as well as Chief Joseph's celebrity on the east coast late in his life. A wonderful informative book.