David L. Crowder's Tendoy, Chief of the Lemhis traces the life of the prominent Shoshone leader against the dramatic backdrop of Idaho's Lemhi Valley and the rugged Salmon River country. The biographical narrative is deeply anchored in this specific Pacific Northwest geography, detailing the tribe's ancestral homelands nestled beneath the towering Bitterroot Mountains. Crowder chronicles Tendoy's diplomatic efforts to maintain peace as waves of miners and settlers encroached upon these vital eastern Idaho waterways and valleys during the late nineteenth century. Ultimately, the book describes the heartbreaking forced relocation of Tendoy's people from their beloved northern territories to the arid plains of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in southeastern Idaho.

139 pages : illustrations, 3 maps, portraits ; 23 cm