Richard Kluger re-creates the 1853-54 conflict between whites and Puget Sound Indians in The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek. The little remembered conflict is a near-perfect example of the theft of Indian lands, this time by the Medicine Creek Treaty. The protagonists in this one-sided contest were Chief Leschi of the Nisqually Indians and Washington Territory’s greedy Gov. Isaac Stevens

July 2011
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- A Screenwriter’s Five Indispensable Western Books
- Curtiz Hands the Reins to Wayne
- Colt’s Last Wild West Six-Gun
- Nocturnes Hit Million-Dollar Marks
- Love Will Find a Way
- The Civil War
- Bobby Bridger
- El Jovencito
- The Civil War on the Silver Screen
- Texas Lawmen, 1835-1899
- The Suppressed History of America
- Pansy’s History
- Where the West Begins
- The Case of the Indian Trader
- The Bronco Bill Gang
- Great Sioux War Orders of Battle
- The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek
- The Mormon Rebellion
- The Cadillac of Cattle Drives
- Top 10 Things to Do in Denver
- Oregon Trail Endangered
- Keeping the Peace
- Bartlesville, Oklahoma
- To Garry Owen in Glory
- The Last Train to Boothill
- Beware of the Dung Tea
- Docs, Dentists & Booze
- The Fabric of the West
- The Last Ride of Bonnie McCarroll
- Viva Outlaw Women