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Cooke City, Montana
On September 7, General Howard and his men, passing throug...
Nez Perce National Historic Trail Interpretive Site, Wyoming
While General Howard and his men traveled the main access ...
Cooke City, Montana
September 7, 1877 - General Howard passes Cook...
Soda Butte, Wyoming
September 6, 1877 - Soldiers begin moving up S...
Baronett's Bridge, Wyomnig
Sept. 5, 1877 - Howard’s forces reach Ba...
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...
Canyon Junction, Wyoming
September 3, 1877 - The army was running low o...
Spurgin's Beaver Slide, Wyoming
September 3, 1877 - Captain Spurgin gets the w...
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Cooke City, Montana
On September 7, General Howard and his men, passing through Cooke City, noted that miners had armed themselves and manned a stockade, to barricade themselves against the Nez Perce. The events that unfolded in Yellowstone had everyone on edge, but ...
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 ...
Cooke City, Montana
September 7, 1877 - General Howard passes Cooke City
“The soldiers fixed up the Baro nett bridge, burned by a war-party, and marched on up Soda Butte Creek and passed Cooke City, where several pioneer miners volunteered to ...
Soda Butte, Wyoming
September 6, 1877 - Soldiers begin moving up Soda Butte Canyon
Soda Butte is a travertine (calcium carbonate) mound that was formed more than a century ago by hot springs. When the U.S. Army passed by this feature in 1877, ...
Baronett's Bridge, Wyomnig
Sept. 5, 1877 - Howard’s forces reach Baronett’s Bridge
Baronett’s Bridge, which sat astride the Yellowstone River at the confluence of the Yellowstone and Lamar Rivers, was built in 1871 as a toll-bridge. Jack Baronett profited more from miners on ...
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 ...
Canyon Junction, Wyoming
September 3, 1877 - The army was running low on supplies.
“On the Yellowstone the army ran out of tobacco and most everything else, and filled up on lake trout without salt. These fat fish were ...
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 ...
