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Bannock Pass to Leadore
Back Into Idaho
*Adventurous Travel: road...
Horse Prairie to Bannock Pass
Big Hole Battlefield to Skinner Meadows
Gibbon Attacks
On August 9th, the dawn’s silence was shattered when...
Nez Perce Reach Big Hole
The steep trail over the Continental Divide was fami...
Gibbon at Ross Hole
Gibbon Enters the Bitterroot Valley
The Bitterroot Valley
Through the Bitterroot Valley: Lolo Creek to Carlton Creek
Lolo Creek to Carlton Creek
...Lolo Trail Barricade: "Fort Fizzle"
I had...
Clearwater Battle
(Mile 21.2 Idaho State Highway 13)
Results for B
Bannock Pass to Leadore
Back Into Idaho
*Adventurous Travel: roads not recommended for motor homes or vehicles towing trailers; usually passable from July to October*
Exactly which route the Nez Perce followed as they left Montana and entered Idaho is unclear. Possibilities include Deadman ...
Horse Prairie to Bannock Pass
In The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time
*Adventurous Travel: roads not recommended for motor homes or vehicles towing trailers; usually passable from July to October*
To the southwest of here is ...
Big Hole Battlefield to Skinner Meadows
"A Rifle Shot At First Light"
“That night the warriors paraded about camp, singing, ...
Gibbon Attacks
On August 9th, the dawn’s silence was shattered when Colonel Gibbon’s 7th Infantry and Captain John Catlin’s Bitterroot volunteers attacked the unsuspecting, sleeping Nez Perce at their camp beside the North Fork Big Hole River. Today this is part of ...
Nez Perce Reach Big Hole
The steep trail over the Continental Divide was familiar but difficult. After the climb, and one night at Trail Creek, the Nez Perce made camp on the banks of a clear, cool stream where the forested mountains meet the green ...
Gibbon at Ross Hole
All right, Looking Glass, you are one of the chiefs! I have no wife, no children ...
Gibbon Enters the Bitterroot Valley
The Bitterroot Valley
During the first half of the 19th century, trappers, traders and missionaries came to the Bitterroot Valley. St. Mary’s Mission, built by Jesuits at Stevensville in 1841, was the first Roman Catholic mission in ...
Through the Bitterroot Valley: Lolo Creek to Carlton Creek
Lolo Creek to Carlton Creek
After avoiding a major conflict on the Lolo Trail, the Nez Perce followed Lolo Creek to the Bitterroot River. Here they were joined by Poker Joe and several others increasing their numbers by twelve lodges. ...
Lolo Trail Barricade: "Fort Fizzle"
I had a talk with Chief’s Joseph, White Bird and Looking
Glass, who proposed if allowed to pass unmolested, to march peaceably through the Bitterroot Valley in western Montana.
– Captain Rawn, 7th Infantry
To block the ...
Clearwater Battle
(Mile 21.2 Idaho State Highway 13)
As you drive along the US Highway 12, venture to the second battle site known as the Clearwater Battlefield . Take the Idaho Highway 13 exit. Drive through the towns of Kooksia and Stites. ...
