Robert P. Wells

White Bear - A Novel of the Nez Perce Conflict, 1877 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

White Bear is a novel based on the amazing true story of the Nez Perce conflict of 1877, the so-called "last Indian war" of the American West. White Bear is an untested young warrior of the Nez Perce people, natives of the Pacific Northwest, led by his uncles Chief Joseph and the chief's younger brother, the war-chief Ollokot. Forced off their traditional homelands and onto inadequate space on an Indian reservation by an unlawful treaty enforced by the US Army the Nez Perce choose peace instead of an unwinnable war. But renegade warriors among them suddenly attack white settlers in the area, in vengeance for old wrongs, before the people come onto the reservationforcing the Nez Perce to escape in a desperate cross-country bid to reach sanctuary in Canada. Thus begins the extraordinary flight by the Nez Perce for freedom, a journey that will take them over a thousand miles of the roughest wilderness of the American West, and involve them in numerous battles and skirmishes until the final confrontation. It is in this turbulent context that White Bear comes of age.

Epic in scope and scale, White Bear features a large cast of characters on both sides of the conflict the Nez Perce people attempting their long escape toward freedom, and the American military forces determined to stop them to tell the unprecedented and highly dramatic story of the longest running battle in American history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Robert P. Wells
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798215516331
• Artikelnr.: 70919153

Autorenporträt

Dr. Robert Preston Wells, Ph.D. was born in Los Angeles in the middle of the 20th Century and graduated from UCLA (B.A., summa cum laude), the University of Chicago (M.A.) and the University of Edinburgh (Ph.D.), where he also won a postgraduate scholarship, Writer's Bursary from the Scottish Arts Council, and membership in the Scottish Arts Society. He has taught undergraduate courses at UCLA, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Melbourne, and Millikin University in Illinois. He spent almost 30 years as a senior executive in IT publishing (Australian Macworld, Mobile Business, Upside Magazine, Linux Magazine,Technology & Investing, Asia) before semi-retiring to write fiction, and become an indentured servant to dogs and cats. His books include "White Bear," "The Virgin's Bastard," "Overlord / Underhand," "Judith in Hell," "Three True Tales" (short stories), "Veteran's Day" (one-act comedy), and "Journeyman: Selected Poems."

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