Throughout the 1850s, Native peoples of the inland Northwest actively resisted white encroachments into their traditional territories. Tensions exploded in 1858 when nearly one thousand Palouses, Spokanes, and Coeur d'Alenes routed an invading force commanded by Colonel Edward Steptoe. In response, Colonel George Wright mounted a large expedition into the heart of the Columbia Plateau to punish and subdue its Native peoples. Opposing Wright's force was a loose confederacy of tribes led by the famous warrior Kamiakin. ...
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Throughout the 1850s, Native peoples of the inland Northwest actively resisted white encroachments into their traditional territories. Tensions exploded in 1858 when nearly one thousand Palouses, Spokanes, and Coeur d'Alenes routed an invading force commanded by Colonel Edward Steptoe. In response, Colonel George Wright mounted a large expedition into the heart of the Columbia Plateau to punish and subdue its Native peoples. Opposing Wright's force was a loose confederacy of tribes led by the famous warrior Kamiakin. Indian War in the Pacific Northwest is a vivid and valuable first-person account of that aggressive and bloody military campaign. Related by Lawrence Kip, a young lieutenant serving under Wright, it provides a rare glimpse of military operations and campaign life along the far western frontier before the Civil War. Replete with colorful prose and acute observations, his journal is also notable for its dramatic descriptions of clashes with Kamiakin's men and compelling portraits of leading figures on both sides of the Plateau Indian War. The new introduction provides the historical and cultural background and aftermath of the conflict, explores its effects on present-day Native peoples of the Columbia Plateau, and critically assesses Kip's observations and interpretations. Also included in this Bison Books edition are two Native accounts of the conflict by Kamiakin and Mary Moses.
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This book is readily available, and that's the trouble. Not many people might know that Kip "borrowed" some material from Captain E.D. Keyes, who was the second in command to Col. George Wright during this 1858 U.S. Army campaign into tribal territory. Captain Keyes writes the following in his book, 50 Years Observation of Men and Events. Glen Adams, owner and printer of Ye Galleon Press, Fairfield, WA, was able to print a portion of Keyes' book in "Fighting Indians in Washington Territory." Here is what Keyes' wrote: "Lieutenant Lawrence Kip, Third Artillery, son of the Episcopal Bishop of California, performed his duty as my adjutant efficiently, and at the close of the campaign he wrote and published its history in a small book, which was reviewed in one of the English periodicals. On a reperusal of Kip's work after finishing my own account, I find an exact correspondence of dates and few inaccuracies. The most that he said of Qualchein [sic] he borrowed from and credited to me." Kip, however, does not write a completely honest book, in that Kip pretends to have personally witnessed the execution of Qualchan, who was hanged, on the orders of Col. George Wright. In fact, Kip was miles away, gathering up the bones of his fellow soldiers who had died several months before during the ill-fated Steptoe expedition, and whose bodies had been left while Steptoe retreated with his remaining men and barely escaped with their lives. When Kip returned to Wright's camp on Latah Creek, Qualchan had already been killed. Perhaps because Kip was still upset about seeing his friend's body, Kip readily believed some of the eyewitness accounts that related that Qualchan died like a coward. Unfortunately, Kip's faked account is the one that most people read. In fact, a glance at the original source, by E. D. Keyes, gives a truer picture of Qualchan's last minutes. Qualchan rode into an enemy camp upon the invitation of Col. Wright. Qualchan rode in with his wife, his brother Lokout, and possibly his younger brother Seven Mountains. The Army troops numbered about 1,000, so it took a brave man to ride into such a large enemy camp. In addition, Wright had offered a parlay, and then broke all civilized rules by tricking Qualchan and ordering him hanged. Captain Keyes reported that Qualchan fought so hard that it took 6 men to get the rope around his neck. "Many persons who witnessed his conduct charged him with cowardice and poltroonery, but for myself I took a different view of it. As soon as his hands and feet were bound and the preparations for his death concluded, resistance was out of the question, and love of life was the sole motive of his conduct. He was still young, not over twenty-five years of age, and his physical constitution was apparently perfect--that, and his renown as a prince and warrior, gave to his life a charm and value which he was unwilling to surrender." Some additional sources familiar with tribes mention that Qualchan was signing a mornful death song. So, if you purchase this book by Lawrence Kip, please take what he writes with a grain of salt. For his version of Qualchan's death, at least, Kip was a writer of fiction, rather than fact. Kip didn't witness Qualchan's death, and Kip is lying when he said he witnessed it.
