Dramatically recreates the life of the Indian chief who led the Nez Perces in their last, disasterous campaign against the white man

A biography of the great Nez Percae chief who, struggling desperately to keep his tribe safe and free, led them on a flight to Canada.

“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we sho

A biography of the Nez Percé Indian chief who led his people in a flight from their Oregon lands to Canada in 1877.

In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its co