With the Nez Perces: Alice Fletcher in the Field, 1889-1892

By E. Jane Gay

Book Overview

In 1889 the U.S. government sent the anthropologist Alice Fletcher to Idaho to allot the Nez Perce Reservation. She was accompanied by E. Jane Gay, who served as cook, housekeeper, photographer, and general factotum. In this collection of her letters, Gay describes in sprightly fashion their encounters with feuding agents, hostile white squatters, and a Nez Perce tribe divided over and puzzled by this latest government program.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803270240
• ISBN13: 9780803270244
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"