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“This novel is about the Nez Perce War, part of the Indian Wars…The novel dramatizes two sides: the American army, who we follow through their campaigns, and the Native American people. If you look at the American army, you see the psychology of the men and of the people as a unit has utterly changed since the Civil War. When more than 600,000 of your countrymen have died—we’re still dealing with that now, and for that to have happened within a decade, the psychologies of people have been immensely affected…If you’re looking for a novel that gives you historical fiction at its most minute and forensic then you should read The Dying Grass.“ Read more...
The Best Novels about the History of the United States
Bernard T. Joy, Literary Scholar
