1877, the year after Sitting Bull's victory at Little Big Horn, the U.S. cavalry chases the Nez Perce nation from its homeland in Oregon's Wallowa Valley. Chief Joseph escapes, leading 800 men, women and children and thousands of horses on an amazing 1700 mile retreat, outwitting five separate U.S. army divisions in a race to reach the Sioux in Canada â?’ to unite with them, the Crow, Blackfeet and other native peoples in a war for the American northwest.<br><br>THE YEAR AFTER CUSTER recreates this heroic year with authentic detail in all its epic Western drama â?’ that reaches from the whorehouses of Ogallala to lunch with the Rockefellers in New York City; from the tipi of a Nez Perce shaman who believes The Great Spirit speaks in his dreams to the field tent of Colonel Nelson Miles who dreams of becoming the new Custer; from the Oregon orchards that a half-white widow abandons to guide her people through Yellowstone's secret canyons to a Texas wrangler who flees the law across the Great Plains and finds the passionate and ennobling purpose of his life.<br><br>In the style of Michener and McMurtry, Myles Murchison's new historical Western brings to life the glory and myth of what is marked today as the Nez Perce Trail, a U.S. National Monument.
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Myles Boone's Murchison. The Year After Custer
Part One - Big Hole. Chapter 1. The Great Spirit
Chapter 2. John Rundy
Chapter 3. The Dream
Chapter 4. The Rope
Chapter 5. North
Chapter 6. Buffalo Hunters
Chapter 7. The Stick
Chapter 8. Ephraim
Chapter 9. Steuben
Chapter 10. The Thompson Boys
Chapter 11. The Bitterroot Kid
Chapter 12. Big Hole
Chapter 13. Retreat
Part Two - Yellowstone. Chapter 14. Star Fire
Chapter 15. Scorpions
Chapter 16. Magic
Chapter 17. Kansa
Chapter 18. Captives
Chapter 19. Baronett's Bridge
Chapter 20. O.O. Howard
Chapter 21. The Knife
Chapter 22. Trail to Fort Ellis
Chapter 23. Bird Flying
Chapter 24. The Chaos
Chapter 25. The Canyon
Chapter 26. The Decision
Chapter 27. The Miners
Part Three - Bear Paw. Chapter 28. Ninebark
Chapter 29. Mine Enemies
Chapter 30. Betrayal
Chapter 31. Cottonwood Blossoms
Chapter 32. Two Women
Chapter 33. Fort Benton
Chapter 34. Shambo
Chapter 35. Miles
Chapter 36. The Interpreter
Chapter 37. Thirty Rifles
Chapter 38. The Napoleon
Chapter 39. The Exchange
Chapter 40. The Plan
Chapter 41. Escape
Chapter 42. Farewell
Chapter 43. Dry Gultch
Chapter 44. Duel
Chapter 45. Aspens
Chapter 46. Home
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"The Wyakin belief reflected a Nez Perce universe filled with individual spirits that existed in dreams and in real life, and to which Nez Perces could appeal for assistance: thunder, lightning, a soaring eagle, a grizzly bear, and so forth. Each spirit could harm or protect a man according to its powers and inclination. The Wyakin could be a single force or a combination of forces acting in concert. Each man had a personal Wyakin, warning him, protecting him, and assisting him through life."
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr
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Alvin M. Josephy, Jr
THE NEZ PERCE INDIANS and the Opening of the Northwest.
