Northwestern Fights and Fighters (Expanded, Annotated)

By Cyrus Townsend Brady

Book Overview

One of the most important collections of first-hand accounts of the Indian wars of the west is contained in this volume. Not as famous as the Little Bighorn fight, the Nez Perce and Modoc Wars were prominent conflicts between whites and Native Americans that brought the period of Indian Wars to a close.Included in this book are accounts by Chief Joseph, Edward Godfrey, General O.O. Howard, and others who fought in what was then considered the northwest: Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California.An account and analysis of the Custer fight is also in this book, as is a letter by Libby Custer to the New York Times protesting the depiction of her late husband.Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the conflicts that changed the country forever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1519049404
• ISBN13: 9781519049407
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A western classic about the Nez Perce and Modoc wars

Cyrus Townsend Brady, an 1883 graduate of the US Naval Academy, went to the west to seek adventure and prosperity. Instead he initiated a series of works which highlighted his gift for brisk exciting narratives about the Old West. This work presents several rare, first person, revealing accounts of soldiers and Indian Chiefs, all veterans of the Nez Perce and Modoc wars. Brady also revisits and re-examines the history of the engagement at the Little Big Horn, the subject of his previous work, "Indian Fights and Fighters."