Selling Your Father’s Bones: One Tribe's Flight through the Great American WestShortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2008. Part historical narrative, part travelogue through the wilds of the West and part environmental polemic, Selling Your Fathers Bones is a thrilling journey through the history and wilderness of the stunning area of landscape that is Continental USA. In the summer of 1877, around seven hundred members of the Nez Perce Native American tribe set out on one of the most remarkable journeys in the history