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Map of Battle of the Big Hole. Between Gibbon's position and the Nez Perce encampment, which consisted of 89 tipis in a V-shaped pattern, was the waist-deep and willow-lined North Fork of the Big Hole River. Approaching the Nez Perce encampment on foot at dawn, Gibbon's men encountered an old Nez Perce man and killed him.
The big game of North America (1890) Cruising in the Cascades; a narrative of travel, exploration, amateur photography, hunting and fishing (1889) The battle of the Big Hole : a history of General Gibbon's engagement with Nez Percés Indians in the Big Hole Valley, Montana, August 9th, 1877 (1889)
Big Hole National Battlefield preserves a battlefield in the western United States, located in Beaverhead County, Montana. 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 .
Lulled into complacency by their peaceful passage through the Bitterroot Valley, they were attacked on August 9 by Colonel John Gibbon and 200 men in the bloody Battle of the Big Hole. A portion of the fort has been reconstructed at Fort Fizzle Historic Site, [13] adjacent to U.S. Route 12, several miles west of Lolo.
Battle of Little Muddy Creek: May 7, 1877 near modern Lame Deer: Sioux Wars Great Sioux War of 1876 18 United States of America vs Lakota & Cheyenne Battle of the Big Hole: August 9–10, 1877 Beaverhead County: Nez Perce War: 118 [4] United States of America vs Nez Perce & Palouse: Battle of Canyon Creek: September 13, 1877 near Billings: Nez ...
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