Indian War in the Pacific Northwest: The Journal of Lieutenant Lawrence Kip AUTH-187583 a college of Rochester Institute

a college of Rochester Institute of Technology

keeping to the old ways

all told in Block's unforgettable style

A tragic accident forced them together

ISBN13: 9781840683363

Indian War in the Pacific Northwest: The Journal of Lieutenant Lawrence Kip AUTH-187583 a college of Rochester InstituteThroughout the 1850s, Native peoples of the inland Northwest actively resisted white encroachments into their traditional territories. Tensions exploded in 1858 when nearly one thousand Palouses, Spokanes, and Coeur d'Alenes routed an invading force commanded by Colonel Edward Steptoe. In response, Colonel George Wright mounted a large expedition into the heart of the Columbia Plateau to punish and subdue its Native peoples. Opposing Wright's force