Hear Me My Chiefs!: Nez Perce Legend and History

by Lucullus Virgil McWhorter

Book Overview

The Nez Perce were a peaceable and prosperous people who were oppressed, persecuted, misunderstood and badgered, yet avoided war until fateful forces pushed them into it. The author spent years... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870043102
• ISBN13: 9780870043109
• Release Date: September 1952
• Publisher: Caxton Press
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The true story of the Nez Perce

This is an excellent book if you are interested in the Native American side of the story. It is well researched and documented. I recommend it to anyone interested in the history of the pre and post period of native struggles.

A masterpiece of Native American history

L. V. McWhorter's work first came to the notice of those interested in Native American Studies with the 1940 publication of Yellow Wolf: His Own Story, an outstanding first-person account of a warrior named who fought in the 1877 Nez Perce War. This compelled McWhorter to go deeper into his researches on the history and legends of the Nez Perce people. He died in 1944 before completing his manuscript for Hear Me, My Chiefs!: Nez Perce Legend & History. It was left to his son, V. O. McWhorter to organize his father's voluminous materials with the staff invaluable assistance of the State College of Washington at Pullman (which subsequently became Washington State University). That posthumous collaboration was published in 1952. Long out of print, the Caxton Press has now brought out Hear Me, My Chiefs! in a new addition for a new generation of readers. Simply put, no personal or academic Native American Studies library collection can be considered complete or comprehensive without the inclusion of a copy of L. V. McWhorter's masterpiece of Native American history, Hear Me, My Chiefs!: Nez Perce Legends & History.