For centuries, the Pacific was European explorers' impossible puzzle. 63 million square miles where sailors found nothing but endless water. The Polynesians had already solved it, using stars and swells to discover every island in paradise. Their greatest find was Hawaii, forged in fire by the goddess Pele. Then Captain Cook showed up at exactly the wrong time.

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1,500 miles of hell. Battles, blizzards, and betrayals. The Nez Perce fought everything - armies, starvation, and terrain that killed - in their desperate race for freedom.

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Forced into treaty after cruel treaty, the Nez Perce faced an impossible choice: abandon everything their ancestors died for, or risk everything to defend it.