Synopses & Reviews
Review
andldquo;Haines has made a genuine effort to make imaginative and sympathetic use of the few sources that tell the internal story of what the Nez Perces thought, felt, and did. He succeeds so well that the reader, for a change, finds himself looking eastward with the Nez Percandeacute;s instead of riding westward in the vanguard of the new civilization.andrdquo;andmdash;
MontanaSynopsis
A sedentary fishing tribe in the plateau and mountain country of central Idaho, northeastern Oregon, and southeastern Washington, the Nez Percandeacute;s were transformed by the acquisition of the horse into a tribe that hunted on the plains and assimilated much of the buffalo culture.
About the Author
Francis Haines grew up in the Montana range country. Considered one of the countryandrsquo;s leading authorities on the diffusion of the horse among the Indian tribes of North America, on the Appaloosa horse, and on the Nez Percandeacute;s, he was the author of
The Buffalo and
Red Eagles of the Northwest.