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Sulphur Mountain, Wyoming

August 25, 1877 - Helena tourists camp near he...

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Mud Volcano, Wyoming

August 25, 1877 - Nez Perce camp...

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Side Trip: Indian Pond and Pelican Creek, Wyoming

August 26 - Nez Perce camp at Indian Pond...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Madison Junction, Wyoming

August 23 - Nez Perce camp near tourists

On the night of August 23, a group of tourists camped in the Park became worried about the Nez Perce moving through the region. However, a scout assured the tourists that they ...

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Madison River, Wyoming

August 23- Nez Perce enter Yellowstone

On August 14, nine days before the Nez Perce arrived, a party of tourists from Radersburg, Montana, passed here on their way to the Lower Geyser Basin where they set up their main camp ...

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The Nez Perce Reach the Madison River

After spending one day at Henry_s Lake, the Nez Perce departed on August 22. They crossed the 7,072 foot Targhee Pass and descended to the Madison River. They then began a journey through the Yellowstone wilderness, an area revered by ...

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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 ...

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