Leschi: Justice in our Time
HISTORICAL FIGURESPRELUDE TO WARINDIAN WARS 1855-56LESCHI ON TRAILLESCHI'S LEGACYTEACHING
 
Prominent individuals caught up in the conflict
The circumstances leading to heightened hostilities
The events of the Indian Wars
A Nisqually leader is tried for murder
The legend continues into the present
Teacher's Guide: Lesson Plans, Learning Requirements, etc
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Historical Figures

LESCHI:
  • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. The Nisqually, My People. Tacoma: Tahoma Research, 2002
  • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. Leschi, Last Chief of the Nisquallies. Tacoma: Tahoma Research, 1998.
  • Leschi, Mary, in an interview with Ezra Meeker. Undated. Collection of the Washington State Historical Society.
  • Richards, Kent. Isaac I. Stevens: Young Man in a Hurry. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1993.
  • Newell, Gordon R. Rogues, Buffoons & Statesmen. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1975.
  • Eckrom, J. A. Remembered Drums: A History of the Puget Sound Indian War. Walla Walla, WA: Pioneer Press Books, 1989.
  • Meeker, Ezra. The Tragedy of Leschi. Everett, WA: The Printers, 1980.
  • Kunsch, Kelly. The Trials of Leschi, Nisqually Chief. Unpublished article. Spring 2004.
ISAAC STEVENS:
  • Buerge, David M. "Big Little Man: Isaac Stevens (1818-1861)," Washingtonians: A biographical Portrait of the State. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1988.
  • Nicandri, David L. Northwest Chiefs: Gustav Sohon's View of the 1855 Stevens Treaty Councils. Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society, 1986.
  • Richards, Kent D. Isaac I. Stevens: Young Man in a Hurry. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1993.
QUIEMUTH
  • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. The Nisqually, My People. Tacoma: Tahoma Research, 2002.
  • Eckrom, J. A. Remembered Drums: A History of the Puget Sound Indian War. Walla Walla, WA: Pioneer Press Books, 1989.
  • Longmire, James. "James Longmire, Pioneer: Interesting Story of His Experience in Hunting Buffalo Coming Across the Plains." The Oregon Trail. Idaho State University. September 17, 2004.
  • Newell, Gordon R. Rogues, Buffoons & Statesmen. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1975.
  • "Thurston County Profile." Thurston Regional Planning Council. September 20, 2004.
YELM JIM (WA HE LUT)
  • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. The Nisqually, My People. Tacoma: Tahoma Research, 2002.
  • Cynthia Iyall, Leschi descendant in an interview with Melissa Parr, 20 September 2004.
  • Meeker, Ezra. The Tragedy of Leschi. Everett, WA: The Printers, 1980.
  • Newell, Gordon R. Rogues, Buffoons & Statesmen. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1975.
  • Wa he lut Indian School. 20 September 2004.
  • Wickersham, James. "Is it Mount Tacoma or Rainier?" Proceedings of the Tacoma Academy of Sciences. Tacoma: News Publishing Company, 1893.
SLUGGIA
  • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. Tears of Internment: The Indian History of Fox Island and the Puget Sound Indian War. Tacoma: Tahoma Research Service, 1996.
  • Cynthia Iyall, Leschi descendant, in an interview with Melissa Parr, Washington State Historical Society curator. September 14, 2004.
  • Meeker, Ezra. The Tragedy of Leschi. Everett, WA: The Printers, 1980.
  • Stevens, Isaac I. Letter to W. B. Gosnell, Esq. February 27, 1857. Frederick Collection of Western Americana, Shelton, WA.
  • Wilkinson, Charles. Messages from Frank's Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties and the Indian Way. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.
LIEUTENANT AUGUSTUS KAUTZ
  • Hemphill, Major General John A. and Robert C. Cumbow. West Pointers and Early Washington: The Contributions of U.S. Military Academy Graduates to the Development of the Washington Territory, from the Oregon Trail to the Civil War, 1834-1862. Seattle: The West Point Society of Puget Sound, Inc., 1992.
  • Eckrom, J. A. Remembered Drums: A History of the Puget Sound Indian War. Walla Walla, WA: Pioneer Press Books, 1989.
  • Meeker, Ezra. Pioneer Reminiscences of Puget Sound, The Tragedy of Leschi. Seattle: Lowman & Hanford Stationery and Printing Co., 1905.
COLONEL SILAS CASEY
  • Hemphill, Major General John A. and Robert C. Cumbow. West Pointers and Early Washington: The Contributions of U.S. Military Academy Graduates to the Development of the Washington Territory, from the Oregon Trail to the Civil War, 1834-1862. Seattle: The West Point Society of Puget Sound, Inc., 1992.
GENERAL JOHN WOOL
  • Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett. "Major-General John Ellis Wool" History of Rensselaer Co., New York. Rensselaer County GenWeb. December 7, 2004.
  • Richards, Kent. Isaac I. Stevens: Young Man in a Hurry. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1993.
  • Wool, John Ellis. Letter to John B. Cunningham, Esq. Frederick Collection of Western Americana, April 4, 1856.
COLONEL GEORGE WRIGHT
  • Hemphill, Major General John A. and Robert C. Cumbow. West Pointers and Early Washington: The Contributions of U.S. Military Academy Graduates to the Development of the Washington Territory, from the Oregon Trail to the Civil War, 1834-1862. Seattle: The West Point Society of Puget Sound, Inc., 1992.

Prelude to War

THE MURDER OF A.J. BOLON
  • Bischoff, William N. We Were Not Summer Soldiers: The Indian War Diary of Plympton J. Kelly 1855-1856. Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society, 1976.
  • McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil. The Tragedy of Wahk-shum: The Death of Andrew J. Bolon, Yakima Indian Agent, As Told by Su-el-lil, Eyewitness. Issaquah, WA: Great Eagle Publishing, 1994.
  • Richards, Kent. Isaac I. Stevens: Young Man in a Hurry. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1993.

Indian Wars 155-56

THE GROUPS CAUGHT UP IN THE WARS
  • Haeberlin, Hermann and Erna Gunther. The Indians of Puget Sound. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1930.
  • Langellier, John P. Bluecoats: The U.S. Army in the West, 1848-1897. Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1995.
  • Mahon, John K. History of the Militia and the National Guard. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1983.
  • Richards, Kent. Isaac I. Stevens: Young Man in a Hurry. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1993.
TIMELINE OF THE CONFLICT


Leschi on Trial

  • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. The Nisqually, My People. Tacoma: Tahoma Research, 2002.
  • Eckrom, J. A. Remembered Drums: A History of the Puget Sound Indian War. Walla Walla, WA: Pioneer Press Books, 1989.
  • Cynthia Iyall, Leschi descendant, in an interview with Melissa Parr, Washington State Historical Society curator. September 14, 2004.
  • Judson, Pheobe Goodell. A Pioneer's Search for an Ideal Home. Bellingham, WA: Union Printing, Binding and Stationery Company, 1925.
  • Longmire, James. "James Longmire, Pioneer: Interesting Story of His Experience in Hunting Buffalo Coming Across the Plains." The Oregon Trail. Idaho State University. September 17, 2004.
  • Meeker, Ezra. The Tragedy of Leschi. Everett, WA: The Printers, 1980.
  • Newell, Gordon R. Rogues, Buffoons & Statesmen. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1975.

Leschi's Legacy

  • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. Leschi, Last Chief of the Nisquallies. Last chapter: The Legacy of Leschi. Tacoma: Tahoma Research, 1998.

 
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