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Meeting With Chief Tendoy
After crossing Bannock Pass, the Nez Perce moved down C...
Howard's Strategy at Snowline
On August 17 near Snowline, fearing the Nez Perce mi...
Bannock Pass to Leadore
Back Into Idaho
*Adventurous Travel: road...
Skinner Meadows to Horse Prarie
Leaving Behind the Big Hole Valley
*Adven...
Big Hole Battlefield to Skinner Meadows
Crossing the Continental Divide
Colonel Gibbon dispatched Lieutenant Bradley and Cap...
Over the Continental Divide
Lolo Trail Barricade: "Fort Fizzle"
I had...
Stites, Idaho
The Nez Perce traditionally used two routes to cross the Bitt...
Results for D T
Meeting With Chief Tendoy
After crossing Bannock Pass, the Nez Perce moved down Cruickshank Canyon to the mouth of Timber Creek. At the small town of Junction (two miles east of Leadore) locals awaited them behind a small, hastily constructed stockade. Here, Chiefs White ...
Howard's Strategy at Snowline
On August 17 near Snowline, fearing the Nez Perce might escape back into Montana, Howard sent 40 cavalrymen under the command of First Lieutenant George R. Bacon and several Bannock scouts under the command of Orlando "Rube" Robbins to proceed ...
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 ...
Skinner Meadows to Horse Prarie
Leaving Behind the Big Hole Valley
*Adventurous Travel: roads not recommended for motor homes or vehicles towing trailers; usually passable from July to October*
Leaving the Takseen camp, the Nez Perce moved south through the Big Hole River drainage. A ...
Big Hole Battlefield to Skinner Meadows
"A Rifle Shot At First Light"
“That night the warriors paraded about camp, singing, ...
Crossing the Continental Divide
Colonel Gibbon dispatched Lieutenant Bradley and Captain Catlin with some of their men and a couple volunteers to locate the Nez Perce. Early on August 8, Gibbon and his men started over the Continental Divide. It required many laborious hours ...
Over the Continental Divide
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 ...
Stites, Idaho
The Nez Perce traditionally used two routes to cross the Bitterroot Mountains into Montana: the k'useyneisskit (Road to the Buffalo) K'useyneisskit - Lolo Trail and the kise'iskit (Camping Trail) - the Southern Nez Perce Trail, which begins here and ends in Conner, ...
