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The Nez Perce entered Yellowstone National Park on August 23, 1877, near the Madison river. On September 6, 1877, they left the northeast corner of the park via Crandall Creek 44°49′03″N 109°47′13″W / 44.81750°N 109.78694°W / 44.81750; -109.78694 ( Crandall Creek ) [ 18 ] en route to the Clark's Fork of the Yellowstone
The first records of the spring are from early European explorers and surveyors. In 1839, a group of four trappers from the American Fur Company crossed the Midway Geyser Basin and made note of a "boiling lake", most likely the Grand Prismatic Spring, [5] with a diameter of 300 feet (90 m).
The sites of Howard's encampment, where the incident began, and the later siege, were designated a National Historic Landmark as the Camas Meadows Battle Sites in 1989, are part of the Nez Perce National Historical Park and the Nez Perce National Historic Trail. The sites are undeveloped, except for a grave marker at the site of the encampment.
The National Park Service said the eruption covered an area just shy of the size of Rhode Island. The Usgs said it had spread ash and materials over 1,000 miles, reaching what today is Southern ...
The caldera is the enormous volcanic crater left from the last time Yellowstone experienced a giant eruption, 640,000 years ago. It covers an area about 30 by 45 miles .
The Biscuit Basin area of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming is closed following a hydrothermal explosion Tuesday morning, park officials said in a news release and post on X.. Biscuit Basin ...
Hayden Geological Survey of 1871 – First of five surveys by Hayden in Yellowstone; Native Americans Nez Perce National Historic Trail – Nez Perce tribe traversed Yellowstone during Nez Perce War of 1877; People Explorers. Robert Adams, Jr. – U.S. Geological Surveys 1871–1875; Jim Bridger – Mountain man familiar with Yellowstone region ...
The Nez Perce route (red) from Yellowstone Park to Canyon Creek and the route of General Howard (purple) and Colonel Sturgis (dotted purple).. In June 1877, several bands of the Nez Perce, resisting relocation from their native lands on the Wallowa River in northeast Oregon to a reservation in north-central Idaho Territory on the Clearwater River, attempted to escape to the east through Idaho ...