Howard was waiting for the Sheridans as they walked across a gangplank from their ocean steamer to a Willamette River ... riding hundreds of miles through Oregon's Harney Desert in the dead of summer, he could dance with a smart step.
Then came the railway engineers and their men, linking Settle with Carlisle. Thunderous noises, including a new-fangled explosive called dynamite, echoed in and around the mountains. This book tells the story of Ribblehead.
“Steve Peters won. he always wins. he's one of the fastest milers in the state. I came in second. I always come in second.” “Well, maybe I didn't go to watch Steve Peters. I just saw that you were way ahead of everyone else.
Thunder in the Mountains was the first book-length account of this crisis in American industrial relations and governance, much neglected in historical accounts.
Recreating the Nez Perce War through the voices of its survivors, Daniel J. Sharfstein’s visionary history of the West casts Howard’s turn away from civil rights alongside the nation’s rejection of racial equality and embrace of ...