HELENA WEEKLY HERALD, Montana, Oct. 11, 1877  

* Very rare title from the Old West
* Chief Joseph & New Perce Indians surrender

The masthead is quite ornate and features a nice engraving of a mining scene in Montana. This is a territorial newspaper as Montana did not become a state until 1889.
Page 3 has great column heads on the surrender of Chief Joseph, with column heads: "AT LAST" "Joseph, the Warrior" "After A Retreat of Two Thousand Miles" "Surrenders His Entire Band" "350 Men, Women and Children Captured" "60 Warriors Afterwards Escape".
Chief Joseph was the head of the Nez Perce Indians.
Eight pages, small binding indents at the blank spine, great condition.

Background: The surrender of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce band represents a profound turning point in the history of the American West, marking the definitive end of major, organized Native American military resistance on the northern plains and signaling the total subjugation of indigenous tribes to the U.S. reservation system. The conflict exposed the stark brutality of post-Civil War federal Indian policy, transforming a historically peaceful tribe—who had famously aided the Lewis and Clark expedition—into refugees pursued across four states simply for refusing to forfeit their ancestral lands to white settlement and gold mining. Beyond its tragic geopolitical reality, the event achieved immense cultural significance through the media coverage captured in newspapers like the Helena Weekly Herald. The Nez Perce's extraordinary tactical brilliance against overwhelming military odds captured the awe of the American public, while Chief Joseph’s eloquent surrender speech fundamentally reframed the popular narrative of the "Indian Wars," forcing a mirror up to a rapidly expanding nation and cementing the Nez Perce campaign as an enduring, tragic symbol of the cost of Manifest Destiny.