The Dying Grass

ISBN: 0670015989

Author: Vollmann, William T.

Condition: Used

"The reading experience of a lifetime ..."--The Washington PostThe National Book Award winner takes readers inside the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce IndiansIn this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann