The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America [Signed]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine in about near fine fainlty edge-rubbed & worn jacket. See photos. in fine dust-jacket. Quarto in orange & brown illus jacket; xvi, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, map; 25 cm; bibliographical references (pages 303-306) and index. Signed and inscribed by the author. "The story of a dramatic confrontation between Native Americans and white settlers in the newly created Washington Territory from 1853 to 1857. Washington's first governor, Isaac Ingalls Stevens, had one goal: to persuade (peacefully if possible) the Indians of the Puget Sound region to turn over their ancestral lands to the federal government. In return, they were to be consigned to reservations unsuitable for hunting, fishing, or grazing--their traditional means of sustaining life. The result was an outbreak of violence and rebellion. Social historian Richard Kluger recounts the impact of Stevens's program on the Nisqually tribe. His hasty treaty negotiations with the Indians, marked by deceit, threat, and misrepresentation, inflamed his opponents. Chief Leschi, resolved to save more than a few patches of his people's lush homelands, unwittingly turned his tribe--and himself most of all--into victims of the governor's relentless wrath. The conflict would have echoes far into the future.--From publisher description." - Publisher. / Contents: Preface: A fresh reckoning -- pt. I. The governor and the chief -- "I know what I am about" -- Paradise for free -- The Northwest Express -- A credit to his race -- Christmas at Medicine Creek -- Blood in the Autumn air -- The territory in dread -- An impressive performance -- The wages of zealotry -- pt. II. The trials of Leschi -- Judgment day -- and night -- With malice aforethought -- All the favors of the law -- Epilogue: After Leschi -- I. Salmon and survival -- II. For whom the eagle cries -- III. Red wind rising. / Nisqually Indians -- History -- 19th century.  Nisqually Indians -- Government relations.  Nisqually (Indiens) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.  Nisqually (Indiens) -- Relations avec l'État.  Nisqually Indians.  Nisqually Indians -- Government relations.  Trials.  Nisqualli  Ethnische Beziehungen  Nisqually Indians -- History.  Leschi, Nisqually chief, -1858.  Leschi, Nisqually chief, -1858 -- Trials, litigation, etc.  Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862.  Leschi, Nisqually chief, -1858.  Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862.  Leschi, Nisqually chief, -1858.  Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862.  Graubünden Regierung  Trial and arbitral proceedings.  Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.1800-1899  Puget Sound (Wash.) -- History -- 19th century.  Puget Sound (Wash.) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.  Pacific Ocean -- Puget Sound.  Puget-Sound-Gebiet  Puget Sound (Wash.) -- History -- 19th century.