Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Kluger brings to life a bloody clash between Native Americans and white settlers in the 1850s Pacific Northwest. After he was appointed the first governor of the state of Washington, Isaac Ingalls Stevens had one goal: to persuade the Indians of the Puget Sound region to leave their ancestral lands for inhospitable reservations. But Stevens's program--marked by threat and misrepresentation--outraged the Nisqually tribe and its chief, Leschi, sparking the native resistance movement. Tragically, Leschi's resistance unwittingly turned his tribe and himself into victims of the governor's relentless wrath. The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek is a riveting chronicle of how violence and rebellion grew out of frontier oppression and injustice.
- ISBN10 0307268896
- ISBN13 9780307268891
- Publish Date 1 March 2011 (first published 1 January 2011)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 September 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Alfred A. Knopf
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 330
- Language English