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Laurel to Canyon Creek Battlefield
The main body of Nez Perce was moving up Canyon Creek whil...
Side Trip: Coulson Park, Montana
(4 miles round trip)
Side:Trip Chief Plenty Coups Memorial State Park
Clarks Fork Canyon
*Adventurous Travel: roads not recommend...
Dead Indian Campground
The site of Dead Indian Campground has always been a popul...
Sunlight Picnic Area Side Trip
*Adventurous Travel (2.8 mile ro...
Crandall Creek Bridge and Sunlight Creek Bridge, Wyoming
General Howard’s troops took the Lodgepole Trail fro...
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Laurel to Canyon Creek Battlefield
The main body of Nez Perce was moving up Canyon Creek while their scouts watched from the top of the bluffs as they passed. The warriors who had been in the vicinity of what is now Billings, Montana, were returning ...
Side Trip: Coulson Park, Montana
(4 miles round trip)
At the Coulson settlement, Nez Perce warriors burned a shack and exchanged shots with residents secured in hastily constructed rifle pits. The Nez Perce continued on to near the present town of Huntley before returning ...
Side:Trip Chief Plenty Coups Memorial State Park
(34 miles round trip)
Chief Plenty Coups
Clarks Fork Canyon
*Adventurous Travel: roads not recommended for motor homes or vehicles towing trailers; usually passable from July to October*
Troops throughout Montana had been alerted to the movements of the Nez Perce, an all out effort was assembled to converge from ...
Dead Indian Campground
The site of Dead Indian Campground has always been a popular camping area just as it was for the Nez Perce and the scouts that sought them that September.
“On the 10th we came to a ...
Sunlight Picnic Area Side Trip
*Adventurous Travel (2.8 mile round trip): roads not recommended for motor homes or vehicles towing trailers; usually passable from July to October *
This quick little side trip affords the traveller a chance to see Sunlight Creek up close. Though the ...
Crandall Creek Bridge and Sunlight Creek Bridge, Wyoming
General Howard’s troops took the Lodgepole Trail from Crandall Creek and probably crossed Sunlight Creek about 5 miles upstream from here. Colonel Sturgis, however, could not find a trail leading from the Park and was convinced that the immediate country ...
Nez Perce National Historic Trail Interpretive Site
Chief Joseph Campground
Attempts by General Howard and Colonel Sturgis to communicate were interrupted and met with disastrous results as the Nez Perce had killed the messengers. This left Colonel ...
Cooke City, Montana
On September 7, General Howard and his men, passing through Cooke City, noted that miners had armed themselves and manned a stockade, to barricade themselves against the Nez Perce. The events that unfolded in Yellowstone had everyone on edge, but ...
Nez Perce National Historic Trail Interpretive Site, Wyoming
While General Howard and his men traveled the main access route used by prospectors, the Nez Perce, intent on evading the army, wound their way through the mountains to the south. Braving the cold and treacherous landscape, the Nez Perce ...
