This history of the Nez Perce War was written in 1878 79 by Duncan McDonald, a relative of Chief Looking Glass and the son of a Hudson s Bay Company fur trader and a Nez Perce Indian woman. McDonald spent most of his life on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana.
McDonald wrote the history based on interviews and family sources. In 1878 he traveled to Canada to interview Nez Perce chief White Bird and learn his side of the story. Remarkably, the history was published in a Deer Lodge, Montana, newspaper only a year or two after the war ended.
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This history of the Nez Perce War was written in 1878 79 by Duncan McDonald, a relative of Chief Looking Glass and the son of a Hudson s Bay Company f...