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Set in the late nineteenth century, "Thunder Rolling in the Mountains" follows a young Nez Pécé girl as she recounts her tribe’s tragic displacement by the U.S. Army, their forced retreat northward, and the final surrender that ended their hold on ancestral land.
First publish date: 1992
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Scott O'Dell
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