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Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the dying grass. The washington post the national book award winner takes readers inside the epic fighting retreat of the nez perce indians in this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between native americans and european colonizers, william t. The subject of the dying grass is the campaign of the united states army the indian service division against the nez perce peoples in eastern oregon about 10 years after the civil war. Teeming with many vivid characters on both sides of the conflict, and written in an original style in which the printed page works as a stage with multiple layers of foreground and background, the dying grass is another mesmerizing achievement from one of the most.

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