coordinates) The Nez Perce Native Americans fled through Yellowstone National Park between August 20 and Sept 7, during the Nez Perce War in 1877. As the...
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The Nez Perce War was an armed conflict in 1877 in the Western United States that pitted several bands of the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans and...
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The Nez Perce (/ˌnɛz ˈpɜːrs, ˌnɛs -/ ; autonym in Nez Perce language: nimíipuu, meaning 'we, the people') are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who...
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Snake River (category Articles containing Nez Perce-language text)
on May 31, the Nez Perce were pursued by the Army for over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) east, through Yellowstone before turning north through Montana, fighting...
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Northern Cheyenne were never forced to return to the south. Nez Perce flight through Yellowstone Bourke, John G. (1966). Mackenzies Last fight with the Cheyennes...
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Battle of Canyon Creek (category Battles of the Nez Perce War)
century and the immediate Nez Perce War. It took place on September 13, 1877, west of present-day Billings in Yellowstone County, in the canyons and...
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7th Cavalry Regiment (category Nez Perce War)
D. Sturgis's column when they caught up to the Nez Perce raiding ranches up and down the Yellowstone River. The 7th Cavalry troopers were exhausted from...
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Battle of Bear Paw (category Battles of the Nez Perce War)
passing through Yellowstone National Park, the Nez Perce headed north through the Montana Territory toward Canada. By late September, the Nez Perce, numbering...
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Battle of the Big Hole (category Battles of the Nez Perce War)
States Army and the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans during the Nez Perce War. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. The Nez Perce withdrew in good order...
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Cow Creek (Montana) (category Nez Perce War)
contents. On September 23, 1877, several hundred Nez Perce crossed the Missouri at Cow Creek in their flight toward Canada. An army garrison of twelve men...
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Dead Indian Pass (section Flight of the Nez Perce)
General O.O. Howard, Chief Joseph led 700 Nez Perce men, women, and children and 2,000 horses through Yellowstone Park eastward and into the Absaroka Range...
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Battle of the Clearwater (category Battles of the Nez Perce War)
between the Nez Perce under Chief Joseph and the United States Army. Under General O. O. Howard, the army surprised a Nez Perce village; the Nez Perce counter-attacked...
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impacted the life of the Nez Perce. Nez Perce Indians with Appaloosa horse (c.1895). Nez Perce National Historical Park. Nez Perce encampment (1899). Established...
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Big Hole National Battlefield (category Nez Perce War)
violent battle between the Nez Perce and the U.S. Government forces. After the battle the Nez Perce fled east through Yellowstone National Park, then headed...
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Fort Fizzle (Montana) (category Battles of the Nez Perce War)
July 1877 in Montana Territory. Its purpose was to intercept the Nez Perce in their flight from north central Idaho Territory over Lolo Pass into the Bitterroot...
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Samuel D. Sturgis (category Nez Perce War)
through the wilderness of Yellowstone Park. The Nez Percé deceived Sturgis with a feint and eluded him, continuing their flight northward toward Canada...
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Battle of Cottonwood (category Battles of the Nez Perce War)
Nez Perce War between the Native American Nez Perce people, and U.S. Army soldiers and civilian volunteers. Near Cottonwood, Idaho Territory, the Nez...
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recovered resources and horses but also retrieved deer to gift the hospitable Nez Perce tribes and strengthen sick corp members. Colter was noted by Lewis for...
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1st Cavalry Regiment (United States) (category Nez Perce War)
assistance of the settlers of Mount Idaho, I. T., who were threatened by the Nez Percé Indians under Chief Joseph. Learning that the Indians were crossing Salmon...
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Joseph and the Nez Percé people, pursued by the U.S. Cavalry, crossed from Idaho into Montana near this pass in 1877 during their flight toward Canada...
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soldiers at Cow Creek, Montana delaying their flight north. October 5 – Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce surrendered to Colonel Nelson Miles at the Battle...
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Grand Teton National Park (category Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem)
Symmetry Spire, Mount Saint John, Mount Wister, Teewinot Mountain and Nez Perce Peak and each mountain has at least six established routes to their summits...
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U.S. Route 20 in Montana (category Yellowstone National Park)
Retrieved September 18, 2022. Island Park and West Yellowstone Historical Societies. "The Flight of the Nez Perce" (PDF). National Park Service. p. 3. Retrieved...
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soldier Nelson Appleton Miles, who forced the surrender of Geronimo and the Nez Perce. "Miles City KOA". Retrieved April 12, 2024. "US Gazetteer files 2010"...
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which the Nez Perce fought, using advance and rear guards, skirmish lines, and field fortifications. However, unbeknownst to the Nez Perce, a force led...
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and burned on August 4, 1959, while landing at a remote strip in the Nez Perce National Forest, killing two smokejumpers. C/N:74 tail number: N414H (5-AT-C...
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the Nez Perce pinned Gibbon's men down in a coulee. The band finally fled, 89 of their own (mostly women and children) dead. After a lengthy flight through...
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over 2.63 million acres (10,600 km2). To the east the forest borders Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park and Bridger–Teton National Forest...
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25, 2011. White, Gunther, & van Manen. "Yellowstone Grizzly Bears: Ecology & Conservation" (PDF). Yellowstone National Park. US National Park Service...
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Laurel, Montana (category Cities in Yellowstone County, Montana)
Laurel is a city in Yellowstone County, Montana, United States and the third largest community in the Billings Metropolitan Statistical Area. Laurel is...
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