{"title":"Elliott West","description":"Elliott West is Professor of American History at the University of Arkansas.","products":[{"product_id":"the-last-indian-war-the-nez-perce-story-paperback","title":"The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope, of short-sighted government action and a doomed flight to freedom. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo tell the story, West begins with the early history of the Nez Perce and their years of friendly relations with white settlers. In an initial treaty, the Nez Perce were promised a large part of their ancestral homeland, but the discovery of gold led to a stampede of settlement within the Nez Perce land. Numerous injustices at the hands of the US government combined with the settlers' invasion to provoke this most accomodating of tribes to war. West offers a riveting account of what came next: the harrowing flight of 800 Nez Perce, including many women, children and elderly, across 1500 miles of mountainous and difficult terrain. He gives a full reckoning of the campaigns and battles--and the unexpected turns, brilliant stratagems, and grand heroism that occurred along the way. And he brings to life the complex characters from both sides of the conflict, including cavalrymen, officers, politicians, and--at the center of it all--the Nez Perce themselves (the \u003cem\u003eNimiipuu\u003c\/em\u003e, \"true people\"). The book sheds light on the war's legacy, including the near sainthood that was bestowed upon Chief Joseph, whose speech of surrender, \"I will fight no more forever,\" became as celebrated as the Gettysburg Address. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on a rich cache of historical documents, from government and military records to contemporary interviews and newspaper reports, \u003cem\u003eThe Last Indian War\u003c\/em\u003e offers a searing portrait of a moment when the American identity--who was and who was not a citizen--was being forged.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365701943519,"sku":"9780199769186","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8e_zfiEPLg9780199769186.webp?v=1789070135"},{"product_id":"continental-reckoning-the-american-west-in-the-age-of-expansion-paperback","title":"Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 Caughey Western History Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 Spur Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Civil War Book of 2023 by \u003ci\u003eCivil War Monito\u003c\/i\u003er\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eContinental Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and vague claims by other nations. Thirty years later it was organized into states and territories and bound into the nation and world by an infrastructure of rails, telegraph wires, and roads and by a racial and ethnic order, with its Indigenous peoples largely dispossessed and confined to reservations. \u003ci\u003eContinental Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e argues that these changes should be given equal billing with the Civil War in this crucial transition of national life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As the American West was acquired, integrated into the nation, and made over physically and culturally, the United States shifted onto a course of accelerated economic growth, a racial reordering and redefinition of citizenship, engagement with global revolutions of science and technology, and invigorated involvement with the larger world. The creation of the West and the emergence of modern America were intimately related. Neither can be understood without the other. 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In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and vague claims by other nations. Thirty years later it was organized into states and territories and bound into the nation and world by an infrastructure of rails, telegraph wires, and roads and by a racial and ethnic order, with its Indigenous peoples largely dispossessed and confined to reservations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Unprecedented exploration uncovered the West's extraordinary resources, beginning with the discovery of gold in California within days of the United States acquiring the territory following the Mexican-American War. As those resources were developed, often by the most modern methods and through modern corporate enterprise, half of the contiguous United States was physically transformed. \u003ci\u003eContinental Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e guides the reader through the rippling, multiplying changes wrought in the western half of the country, arguing that these changes should be given equal billing with the Civil War in this crucial transition of national life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As the West was acquired, integrated into the nation, and made over physically and culturally, the United States shifted onto a course of accelerated economic growth, a racial reordering and redefinition of citizenship, engagement with global revolutions of science and technology, and invigorated involvement with the larger world. The creation of the West and the emergence of modern America were intimately related. Neither can be understood without the other. 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