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Introduction to the Trail - Auto Tour 1

 Prelude to the Flight of the Nez Perce 

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Introduction to the Trail - Auto Tour 5

Prelude to the Flight of the Nez Perce

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MHHM-An Ancient Cultural Landscape

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Introduction to the Trail - Auto Tour 1

 Prelude to the Flight of the Nez Perce 

Prior to 1855 the Nez Perce (or, in their language, Niimíipuu, meaning “the real people” or “we the people”) homeland extended throughout much of north-central Idaho, northeastern Oregon and southeastern ...

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Introduction to the Trail - Auto Tour 5

Prelude to the Flight of the Nez Perce

Prior to 1855 the Nez Perce (or, in their language, Niimíipuu, meaning “the people” or “we the people”) homeland extended throughout much of north-central Idaho, northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington. Tension mounted as whites ...

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MHHM-An Ancient Cultural Landscape

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21 Mile Camp

“We passed the last of the Clearwater, where we at night, after twenty-one miles of the roughest country, with Spurgin’s pioneers ahead cutting out the trail, we came ...

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Musselshell Meadows, Traditional Nez Perce Camp

Forest Roads 100 and 500

You can walk on the same route the Nez Perce and the U.S. Army took at a number of trail segments. These are clearly marked with the ...

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Bear Paw National Historic Battlefield

After staying ahead of the military for five months and 1,170 miles, months in which they had crossed mountains, suffered hardship, and lost many friends and relatives, approximately 700 Nez Perce made a final camp on Snake Creek, south of ...

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Cow Island, Montana

Intrepid Travel: roads are gravel or dirt roads. Please be sure your vehicle is appropriate to those conditions. With even a slight bit of rain the Missouri Breaks can turn treacherous. The mud of these dirt roads becomes a gumbo that clings ...

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Hilger to James Kipp Recreation Area Missouri Breaks Backcountry Byway

Intrepid Travel: roads are gravel or dirt roads. Please be sure your vehicle is appropriate to those conditions. Note that some roads can be impassable during periods of inclement weather.

Major Guido Ilges arrived from Fort Benton with soldiers and ...

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Reed and Bowles Trading Post

*Adventurous Travel: roads not recommended for motor homes or vehicles towing trailers; usually passable from July to October- there is no turnaround for large vehivled at the Reed and Bowles Trading Post*

“Major” Alonzo S. Reed and his partner, John ...

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Musselshell River, Montana

The Nez Perce, with the Army behind them, crossed the Musselshell River after the skirmish at Canyon Creek (see Auto Tour 7 for a detailed account) and followed Careless Creek northwest to Judith Gap. Although the exact route taken by ...

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