With the Nez Perces: Alice Fletcher in the Field, 1889-1892

In 1889 the U.S. government sent the anthropologist Alice Fletcher to Idaho to allot the Nez Perce Reservation. She was accompanied by E. Jane Gay, who served as cook, housekeeper, photographer, and general factotum. In this collection of her letters, Gay describes in sprightly fashion their encounters with feuding agents, hostile white squatters, and a Nez Perce tribe divided over and puzzled by this latest government program.

Author: E. Jane Gay
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 11/01/1987
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.29w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780803270244

About the Author
Frederick E. Hoxie is director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, Newberry Library. Joan T. Mark is the author of A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians, also a Bison Book.