Deckman..it looks like The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek is the book by Richard Kluger ... about a conflict between two leaders: Isaac I. Stevens, the first governor of the Washington Territory, and Leschi, an important member of the small Nisqually nation whose people lived on the south end of Puget Sound.http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2011/03/the_bitter_waters_of_medicine.html