Letter : Fort Shaw, M[ontana] T[erritory], to Bishop [Daniel Sylvester] Tuttle, 1877 Sept. 7 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Sept. 7, 1877, letter from John Gibbon to Daniel Sylvester Tuttle, Protestant-Episcopal bishop of Montana, regarding the attack on Nez Percé Chief Joseph's band at the Big Hole River, Aug. 9-10, 1877. Still recovering from a wound suffered during the battle, Gibbon writes of the roots of the conflict, the necessity for surprise and the resulting slaughter of women and children, Joseph's exceptional ability and military strategy as evidenced in the counterattack, and his own recuperation