Chief Joseph

An eighteen-hundred-mile flight across the Bitterroots tests a peace chief forced to defend his people against the United States Army.

The narrative traces decades of mounting friction across the Pacific Northwest as gold miners invade treaty lands and the government demands the surrender of the valley.

Federal cavalry regiments surround the non-treaty bands, forcing Young Joseph and his brother Ollakot to choose between submission on a reservation and an armed migration across the mountains.

A fictional account of the Nez Perce Indians follows Chief Joseph as he gathers his people and flees to Sitting Bull's refuge in Canadian Blackfeet territory, where he becomes engaged in his final, legendary battle at Bear Paw.

Race Against Time: The Nez Perc’e navigate the seven-thousand-foot Lolo Pass with hundreds of families and horse herds, outmaneuvering General Howard across rugged wilderness.
Native American Books: Spanning seven decades from Lewis and Clark’s 1805 arrival on the Clearwater River to the 1877 flight, the narrative dramatises tribal councils, sacred Dreamer traditions, and the struggle to protect ancestral ground.
Western Historical Fiction: Dramatic battle sequences recreate authentic frontier clashes, from the cavalry rout at White Bird Canyon to Colonel Gibbon’s surprise dawn assault at Big Hole Basin.
Also by This Author: Brady’s Law, Crazy Horse and Death Song.