The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek by Richard Kluger
Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Kluger brings to life a bloody clash between Native Americans and white settlers in the 1850s Pacific Northwest. After he was appointed the first governor of the state of Washington, Isaac Ingalls Stevens had one goal: to persuade the Indians of the Puget Sound region to leave their ancestral lands for inhospitable reservations. But Stevens's program--marked by threat and misrepresentation--outraged the Nisqually tribe and its chief, Leschi, sparking the native resistance movement. Tragically, Leschi's resistance unwittingly turned his tribe and himself into victims of the governor's relentless wrath. The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek is a riveting chronicle of how violence and rebellion grew out of frontier oppression and injustice.Richard Kluger is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, Public Health, and Philip Morris' Unabashed Victory. Brown v. Board of Education: A History The National Book Award contenders were Board of Education and Black America's Fight for Equality and The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune. He's also the author or coauthor of eight books. He is a resident of Northern California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307388964 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307388964 |
| Title | The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek |
| Author | Richard Kluger |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2012-03-06 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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