The dying grass
a novel of the Nez Perce War
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Word Count
339,000 words, Guess
Page Count
1,356 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivedyinggrass0000voll
- ISBN-100670015989
- ISBN-139780670015986
- Library of Congress Control Number2015296237
- OCLC Control Number910866825
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780670015986
- Open LibraryOL27185459M
Classifications
- LCCPS3572.O395 D95 2015
- LCCPS3572.O395D95 2015
Alternate Titles
- Fifth dream, The dying grass
Description
In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann?s main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph, but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil War veteran. In this novel, we see him as commander, father, son, husband, friend, and killer.
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Series Statement
- Seven dreams, a book of North American landscapes -- fifth dream
Other Editions
- The dying grass: a novel of the Nez Perce War
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