Name/Title
Wood, Charles Erskine ScottEntry/Object ID
PE138Description
An 1874 graduate of West Point, C.E.S. Wood was a soldier, poet, painter, attorney, satirist, socialist, pacifist, and bon vivant. He was a paradox, a patrician Democrat. As a young Army lieutenant in Washington Territory in 1877, he took part in the campaign against the Nez Pierce Indian tribe led by Chief Joseph, a tragic episode in American history. It was Wood who recorded Chief Joseph's famous words of surrender, "I will fight no more forever!" Wood later said that Joseph "cannot accuse the United States Government of one single act of justice." The two men became friends in later life and even "traded sons" for a summer. Attorney Wood's varied clients included Margaret Sanger, an advocate of free speech and birth control; anarchist Emma Goldman; and James J. Hill, railroad tycoon and "Empire Builder." PE138Collection
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10.49 cmWidth
17.68 cmCopyright
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