Uploaded January 2016 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago

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Book review of William T. Vollmann's The Dying Grass, Volume 5 of the Seven Dreams series. Here Vollmann examines the conflict between the Nez Perce Native Americans and the U.S. military, government, volunteers, and frontier people. Other volumes in the Seven Dreams that have been published so far are:

Volume 1: The Ice-Shirt (1990) , about the arrival of the Vikings in North America (9th-10th centuries).
Volume 2: Fathers and Crows (1992), about the efforts of Jesuit missionaries in Canada (16th-18th centuries).
Volume 3: Argall (2001), written in a 17th-century prose style, about the settlement of Jamestown (17th century).
Volume 6: The Rifles (1994)

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