

Thunder in the Mountains
Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
Author: Daniel Sharfstein
Narrator: Joe Barrett
Unabridged: 18 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 04/04/2017
Synopsis
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.