Marion Public Library
Login
My List - 0
Help
EXPLORE THE LIBRARY
SEARCH FOR BOOKS
MY ACCOUNT
Basic Search
Advanced Search
History
Search:
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Series Keyword
Title starts with...
Author (last name, first name)
Subject starts with...
Series starts with...
ISBN/ISSN number
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Marion Public Library
Item Information
Holdings
Author Notes & Sketches
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
Summary
More by this author
Kluger, Richard.
Subjects
Leschi, Nisqually chief, -1858.
Leschi, Nisqually chief, -1858 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862.
Nisqually Indians -- History -- 19th century.
Nisqually Indians -- Government relations.
Puget Sound (Wash.) -- History -- 19th century.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Kluger, Richard.
by title:
The bitter waters of...
MARC Display
The bitter waters of Medicine Creek : a tragic clash between white and native America / Richard Kluger.
by
Kluger, Richard.
Subjects
Leschi, Nisqually chief, -1858.
Leschi, Nisqually chief, -1858
--
Trials, litigation, etc.
Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862.
Nisqually Indians
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Nisqually Indians
--
Government relations.
Puget
Sound
(
Wash
.)
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Publisher Info:
New York : Vintage Books, 2012, 2011.
Edition:
1st Vintage Books ed.
Description:
xvi, 330 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780307388964 (pbk.)
0307388964 (pbk.)
Contents:
Preface : A fresh reckoning
--
Pt. I. The governor and the chief
--
"I know what I am about"
--
Paradise for free
--
The Northwest Express
--
A credit to his race
--
Christmas at Medicine Creek
--
Blood in the Autumn air
--
The territory in dread
--
An impressive performance
--
The wages of zealotry
--
Pt. II. The trials of Leschi
--
Judgment day - and night
--
With malice aforethought
--
All the favors of the law
--
Epilogue : After Leschi
--
I. Salmon and survival
--
II. For whom the eagle cries
--
III. Red wind rising.
Format Book:
Summary:
The story of a dramatic confrontation between Native Americans and white settlers in the newly created Washington Territory from 1853 to 1857. Washington's first governor, Isaac Ingalls Stevens, had one goal: to persuade (peacefully if possible) the Indians of the
Puget
Sound
region to turn over their ancestral lands to the federal government. In return, they were to be consigned to reservations unsuitable for hunting, fishing, or grazing--their traditional means of sustaining life. The result was an outbreak of violence and rebellion. Social historian Richard Kluger recounts the impact of Stevens's program on the Nisqually tribe. His hasty treaty negotiations with the Indians, marked by deceit, threat, and misrepresentation, inflamed his opponents. Chief Leschi, resolved to save more than a few patches of his people's lush homelands, unwittingly turned his tribe--and himself most of all--into victims of the governor's relentless wrath. The conflict would have echoes far into the future.--From publisher description.
No. of Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Marion Public Library
Top Floor
973.0497 KLU
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.