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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: Billings, Montana
Riverfront Park and Cochran Ran...
Laurel, Montana
While most of the Nez Perce crossed the Yellowstone River ...
Side:Trip Chief Plenty Coups Memorial State Park
Belfry, Montana
On the evening of September 11, General Howard was camped ...
Clarks Fork Canyon
*Adventurous Travel: roads not recommend...
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: Billings, Montana
Riverfront Park and Cochran Ranch
Early on the morning of September 13, with the main party of Nez Perce camped near Canyon Creek, a group of warriors headed south into the Yellowstone Valley to forage for supplies.
Joseph Cochran ...
Laurel, Montana
While most of the Nez Perce crossed the Yellowstone River near Laurel and headed north toward Canyon Creek, a couple of raiding parties followed the Yellowstone River to the small community of Coulson in present day Billings.
They burned some ...
Side:Trip Chief Plenty Coups Memorial State Park
(34 miles round trip)
Chief Plenty Coups
Belfry, Montana
On the evening of September 11, General Howard was camped on the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River just a few miles south of Belfry when he was finally joined by a frustrated Colonel Sturgis. According to a witness, “[Sturgis ...
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 ...
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 ...
