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Dead Indian Overlook
Chief Joseph Scenic Highway (WY-296) in northern Wyoming crosses the Shoshone National Forest through the Absaroka Mountains to the Clarks Fork Valley. It is named after the Native American chief of the Nez Perce Tribe. Chief Joseph and his people fled Yellowstone to avoid being forced onto reservations. The tribe eventually surrendered in northeastern Montana. Not only is the Chief Joseph Highway a stunning drive, it is historically significant and a reminder of the Native American struggle.
The Chief Joseph Scenic Highway is one component of the Nez Perce National Historic Trail. The Trail stretches from Wallowa Lake, Oregon, to the Bear Paw Battlefield near Chinook, Montana. The 1877 flight of the Nez Perce from their homelands while pursued by U.S. Army Generals Howard, Sturgis, and Miles is one of the most fascinating and sorrowful events in Western U.S. history. Chief Joseph, Chief Looking Glass, Chief White Bird, Chief Ollokot, Chief Lean Elk, and others led nearly 750 Nez Perce men, women, and children, and twice that many horses, over 1,170 miles through the mountains on a trip that lasted from June to October of 1877. Their desperate and circuitous route as they tried to escape the pursuing white forces is what we now call the Nez Perce National Historic Trail. (from U.S. Forest Service)
In 1878, shortly after the Nez Perce surrender, a small war party of Bannocks was attacked by Gen. Miles' troops just south of Clark, near the northeast corner of the current Shoshone National Forest. The Indians retreated over what is now known as Dead Indian Hill, leaving one of their wounded behind. The following day, the Bannock was found by some of the Crow Indian Army scouts who promptly killed and scalped him. Until recent years, a rude pile of stones halfway down the west side of the hill marked the grave. (from Shoshone National Forest)
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Dead Indian Overlook
Chief Joseph Scenic Highway (WY-296) in northern Wyoming crosses the Shoshone National Forest through the Absaroka Mountains to the Clarks Fork Valley. It is named after the Native American chief of the Nez Perce Tribe. Chief Joseph and his people fled Yellowstone to avoid being forced onto reservations. The tribe eventually surrendered in northeastern Montana. Not only is the Chief Joseph Highway a stunning drive, it is historically significant and a reminder of the Native American struggle.
The Chief Joseph Scenic Highway is one component of the Nez Perce National Historic Trail. The Trail stretches from Wallowa Lake, Oregon, to the Bear Paw Battlefield near Chinook, Montana. The 1877 flight of the Nez Perce from their homelands while pursued by U.S. Army Generals Howard, Sturgis, and Miles is one of the most fascinating and sorrowful events in Western U.S. history. Chief Joseph, Chief Looking Glass, Chief White Bird, Chief Ollokot, Chief Lean Elk, and others led nearly 750 Nez Perce men, women, and children, and twice that many horses, over 1,170 miles through the mountains on a trip that lasted from June to October of 1877. Their desperate and circuitous route as they tried to escape the pursuing white forces is what we now call the Nez Perce National Historic Trail. (from U.S. Forest Service)
In 1878, shortly after the Nez Perce surrender, a small war party of Bannocks was attacked by Gen. Miles' troops just south of Clark, near the northeast corner of the current Shoshone National Forest. The Indians retreated over what is now known as Dead Indian Hill, leaving one of their wounded behind. The following day, the Bannock was found by some of the Crow Indian Army scouts who promptly killed and scalped him. Until recent years, a rude pile of stones halfway down the west side of the hill marked the grave. (from Shoshone National Forest)
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