The Nez Perce Trail and Nez Perce National Historical Park are spread over five states -- Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. Many principal sites are as isolated now as they were in 1877.

Editor’s note: This story is running in conjunction with the 135th anniversary of the Battle of the Big Hole, which was fought on Aug. 9 and 10, 1877, when Nez ...

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From the Big Hole Valley, the Nez Perce bands crossed Lemhi Pass into Idaho and headed east toward Yellowstone Park and the Yellowstone River Valley, the land of the Crow. Raid at Camas Meadows ...

NEZ PERCE TRAIL, Idaho - A trail, and its story, snakes through thousands of ponderosa and lodgepole pines high in the Bitterroot Mountains. While most may never get near it, there are those who ...

A Civil War veteran, Gibbons was stationed in Fort Shaw when he got word from Howard to cut off the Nez Perce retreat. He met them near the Big Hole River and was wounded in the battle, ending his ...

A LESSON FROM THE NEZ PERCES. Share full article. Oct. 15, 1877. ... Now that the Nez Perce war has ended in victory, thanks to the energy and courage of our much-enduring Army, ...