Northwestern Fights and Fighters

"XENOPHON has chronicled the retreat of the ten thousand; De Quincey has romanced about the migration of the Tartars; a thousand pens have recorded the annihilation of the Grand Army of Napoleon: the story of Joseph and hiz Nez Perces is my theme - the story of the bitterest injustice toward a weak but independent people to which the United States ever set its hand."