With the Nez Perces

In 1889 the US government sent the anthropologist Alice Fletcher to Idaho to allot the Nez Perce Reservation. She was accompanied by E. Jane Gay, who served as cook, housekeeper, and photographer. In this collection of her letters, Gay describes their encounters with feuding agents, hostile white squatters, and a Nez Perce tribe divided over and puzzled by this latest government programme.