Chief Joseph and White Bird are joined …
Years: 1877 - 1877
July
Chief Joseph and White Bird are joined by Looking Glass's band and, after several battles and skirmishes in Idaho during the next month, approximately two hundred and fifty Nez Perce warriors, and five hundred women and children, along with more than two thousand head of horses and other livestock, begin a remarkable eleven hundred and seventy mile fighting retreat by the Nez Perce that becomes known as the Nez Perce War.
Locations
People
Groups
- Palus, or Palouse (Amerind tribe)
- Lakota, aka Teton Sioux (Amerind tribe)
- Nez Perce (Amerind tribe)
- United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC)
- Oregon, State of (U.S.A.)
- Idaho, Territory of (U.S.A.)
- Montana, Territory of (U.S.A.)
Topics
- Indian Wars in Upper North America
- America's “Gilded Age;” 1876 through 1887
- Nez Perce War
- White Bird Canyon, Battle of
