Lay the Mountains Low: The Flight of the Nez Perce from Idaho and the Battle of the Big Hole - August 9-10 1877 (The Plainsmen Series 15)

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LAY THE MOUNTAINS LOW Terry C. Johnston In the summer of 1877 in a place called White Bird Canyon Nez Perce warriors delivered a stunning blow to the First Cavalrythe worst defeat since the Little Bighorn one year before. Now General O.O. Howard is charged with hunting down the Nez Perce and defeating them at last. Willing to sacrifice their ancestral homeland with little understanding of the ways of the mighty U.S. government the Non-Treaty Nez Perce begin a push out of Idaho for Montana and for peace. But it is too late. For warriors soldiers and strategistsand the innocent caught in betweena bloody battlefield awaits at a place called Big Hole Montana...