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The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story by Elliott West

3.93 AVERAGE

sarahcurl's review

4.0
challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced
Long, well-researched, and devastating. While nonfiction is not a genre I naturally gravitate toward, I read this at the urging of my husband, and was impressed by West's thoroughness, writing both about the broad pictures of the United States and the Nez Perce, but also occasionally going into details seemingly so small that you feel as if you are there. 
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i_have_no_process's review

4.75
adventurous challenging emotional informative sad tense medium-paced
An unforgettable tragedy, worthy of its title as the "American anabasis." This account is skillful, thorough, and affecting. Reckoning with these events should remain vital to all Americans forever.
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vanlyn87's review

3.5
challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

ladykate03's review

5.0
American historiography is stocked full of literature covering the Civil War and Reconstruction. The story of the Nez Perce is also and oft-told one, but in his book The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story, Elliot West seeks to reconsider the history of the United States during the period between 1845 and 1877. For West the phrase “Greater Reconstruction” encompasses two great events in the United States - The Civil War and its consequences, and the movement of Americans into the West - that reconstructed the nation. In revisiting this event West argues that the 1870s conflict between the Nez Perce and the US federal government should be viewed in the broader study of the Greater Reconstruction.

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