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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: 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...
Mud Volcano, Wyoming
August 25, 1877 - Nez Perce camp...
Side Trip: Indian Pond and Pelican Creek, Wyoming
August 26 - Nez Perce camp at Indian Pond...
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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: 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 ...
Mud Volcano, Wyoming
August 25, 1877 - Nez Perce camp
Sept. 1, 1877 - General Howard camps on the Yellowstone River
After fording the Yellowstone River, the main band of Nez Perce camped near the river. It is known through several oral histories ...
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 ...
Lower Geyser Basin, Wyoming
August 24, 1877 - The capture of the Radersburg Tourist Party
The morning after they captured John Shively, a Nez Perce scouting party paid an early morning call on the ...
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 ...
Henry's Lake, Idaho
On August 24 General Howard and his troops reached the southern end of Henry's Lake. There he learned of Lieutenant Bacon's return and his failure to intercept the Nez Perce. With that news General Howard realized this desperate chase would ...
