I Will Fight No More Forever (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Merrill D. Beal
- First Published: 1963
- Time of Work: 1863–1904
- Setting: Idaho, Montana, Oklahoma, Washington, and Wyoming
- Principal Characters: Chief Joseph, General Oliver Otis Howard, Chief Looking Glass, Chief White Bird, Colonel Nelson A. Miles, Chief Toohoolhoolzote, Yellow Wolf
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Escapes, Nineteenth century, Leadership, Spiritual life or spirituality, Native Americans or American Indians, Canada or Canadians, Soldiers, Biography, Battles
- Locales: Wyoming, Oklahoma, Washington, Montana, Idaho
Form and Content
In “I Will Fight No More Forever”: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War, Merrill D. Beal created, in essence, many books: a biography, a history text, an anthropological study, and a military report. The book documents the conflict between some Nez Perces and the United States military in 1877. Over four months and three states, several clans within the tribe that had refused initially to move to a reservation retreated toward Canada before surrendering within forty miles of the border. Beal’s book recalls this flight in six general chapters that are...
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