The Pursuit & Capture of Chief Joseph: A story of the end of the Nez Perce War

In 1877, the Nez Perce Indians of the Pacific Northwest fled for their lives and their freedom along a 1,500-mile trail that led them instead to death, exile, and imprisonment. When they reached the end of that tragic journey at the Bear Paw battlefield in Montana Territory, Lieutenant Charles Erskine Scott Wood was there to watch Chief Joseph surrender his rifle and to hear him promise that "from where the sun now stands Joseph will fight no more forever." This, then, is Wood’s account of that surrender as well as a revealing chapter in the story of what has been called "the most extraordinary of Indian wars." Part of the Northwest Classics Series.