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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...
Otter Creek, Wyoming
August 26, 1877 - Tourists from Helena camped ...
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...
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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 ...
Otter Creek, Wyoming
August 26, 1877 - Tourists from Helena camped near here
As the three released Radersburg tourists traveled by here on August 26, they were unaware of the ten men from Helena camped just a short distance away. The day before, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nez Perce Creek, Wyoming
August 23, 1877 - The capture of John Shively
From their camp near present-day Madison junction, the main band of Nez Perce moved south along the Firehole River and then continued east over the Central Plateau following Nez Perce Creek. ...
