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In June 1877, several bands of the Nez Perce, numbering about 750 men, women, and children and resisting relocation from their native lands on the Wallowa River in northeast Oregon to a reservation in west-central Idaho on the Clearwater river, attempted to escape to the east through Idaho, Montana and Wyoming over the Rocky Mountains into the Great Plains.
The Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) National Historic Trail follows the route taken by a large group of people of the Nez Perce tribe in 1877 to avoid being forced onto a reservation. The 1,170-mile (1,883 km) trail was created in 1986 as part of the National Trails System Act and is managed by the U.S. Forest Service .
US 12 west / Lewis and Clark Trail / Nez Perce Trail / Northwest Passage Scenic Byway – Lewiston: Continuation into Idaho: Missoula: Lolo: 32.556: 52.394: US 93 south / Lewis and Clark Trail / Nez Perce Trail – Hamilton: Western end of US 93 concurrency: Missoula: 40.080: 64.503: US 93 north (South Reserve Street) to I-90 – Kalispell US ...
The Chief Joseph Trail Ride is an annual horse trail ride that follows the route the Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) took during the Nez Perce War in 1877. The trail in its entirety is 1,300 miles long, separated into thirteen separate rides, which take place sequentially. [1] The ride is on a 13-year cycle. The trail ride was started in 1965 by the ...
The “first national park” was born 151 years ago, on March 1, 1872, when President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act.. Yellowstone National Park is ...
The pass is the highest point of the historic Lolo Trail, between the Bitterroot Valley in Montana and the Weippe Prairie in Idaho. The trail, known as naptnišaqs , or "Nez Perce Trail" in Salish , [ 2 ] was used by Nez Perce in the 18th century, and by the Lewis and Clark Expedition , guided by Old Toby of the Shoshone , on their westward ...
In 1877, the Nez Perce fought a delaying action against the U.S. Army's 7th Infantry Regiment here on August 9 and 10, during their failed attempt to escape to Canada. This action, the Battle of the Big Hole, was the largest battle fought between the Nez Perce and U.S. Government forces in the five-month conflict known as the Nez Perce War.
Dead Indian Pass is associated with the flight of the Nez Perce Indians during the Nez Perce War in 1877. Pursued by several hundred soldiers led by 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 Mountains.