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Nez Perce National Historic Trail Interpretive Site
Nez Perce National Historic Trail Interpretive Site, Wyoming
While General Howard and his men traveled the main access ...
Side Trip: LaDuke Picnic Area, Montana
August 31, 1877 - Nez Perce and military clash...
Side Trip: Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming
August 31, 1877 - Tourist Richard Dietrich is ...
Side Trip: Blacktail Deer Creek, Wyoming
Emma, Frank, and Ida Cowan were escorted out of the Park b...
Spurgin's Beaver Slide, Wyoming
September 3, 1877 - Captain Spurgin gets the w...
Sulphur Mountain, Wyoming
August 25, 1877 - Helena tourists camp near he...
Nez Perce Ford, Wyoming
August 25 - James...
Side Trip: Indian Pond and Pelican Creek, Wyoming
August 26 - Nez Perce camp at Indian Pond...
Nez Perce Trail / Mary Mountain Trail, Wyoming
August 25, 1877 - Violence erupts
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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 ...
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 ...
Side Trip: LaDuke Picnic Area, Montana
August 31, 1877 - Nez Perce and military clash at Henderson ranch
“The Indians came up behind the house, got the horses out of the corral, set fire to the house, and went back to join ...
Side Trip: Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming
August 31, 1877 - Tourist Richard Dietrich is killed
Several members of the Radersburg party and all members of the Helena party who escaped at Otter Creek found their way to Mammoth Hot Springs. The wounded man, Jack Stewart, was ...
Side Trip: Blacktail Deer Creek, Wyoming
Emma, Frank, and Ida Cowan were escorted out of the Park by Lieutenant Schofield’s detachment, and traveled home by way of Bozeman, Montana. All nine of the Radersburg tourists had survived their encounter with the Nez Perce. However, they did ...
Spurgin's Beaver Slide, Wyoming
September 3, 1877 - Captain Spurgin gets the wagons through
Several of the army wagons had no choice but to descend one particularly steep bit of ground that became known as Spurgin’s Beaver Slide after Captain William F. Spurgin who ...
Sulphur Mountain, Wyoming
August 25, 1877 - Helena tourists camp near here
Sept. 2, 1877 - General Howard abandons wagons
Sulphur Mountain rises only 300 feet above the road but is still the highest point on this side of Hayden Valley. It made ...
Nez Perce Ford, Wyoming
August 25 - James C. Irwin is captured
"During the forenoon the Indians had captured a soldier . He told them of the Helena tourists camped near the Falls, the number of the men ...
Side Trip: Indian Pond and Pelican Creek, Wyoming
August 26 - Nez Perce camp at Indian Pond
The main band of Nez Perce camped another night around Indian Pond, just north of Yellowstone Lake. Oral histories recount how there were so many traveling in this group that many ...
Nez Perce Trail / Mary Mountain Trail, Wyoming
August 25, 1877 - Violence erupts
The relationship between the Nez Perce and the Radersburg tourists became increasingly contentious as some of the younger warriors angered and grief-stricken by the unwarranted assaults on their people sought revenge. Shots were fired ...
