LOOKING GLASS CAMP The Looking Glass Camp is interpreted at a sign along the Clearwater River off U.S. Highway 12, three miles east of Kooskia, Idaho. A small U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fish hatchery occupies the village site, across the river, where the U.S. Army attacked the Looking Glass Band during the 1877 Nez Perce War. The village site is accessible at the Kooskia Fish Hatchery where an interpretive trail takes you through part of the original settlement. During General O.O. Howard's 1887 Nez Perce campaign, Looking Glass and his band were camped up Clear Creek near here. Looking Glass told Army authorities: "Leave us alone. We are living here peacefully and want no trouble." But after a July 1 military attack that destroyed his village, ruined his gardens and captured 750 Nez Perce horses Looking Glass and his band joined other Nez Perce refugees and soon headed for Montana's buffalo plains. Howard spent three more months pursuing Joseph, White Bird, Looking Glass and their warriors after that fiasco. After the soldiers left, we retured to our ruined homes. Several tepees had been burned or otherwise ruined. Much had been carried away and many objects destroyed or badly damaged...Growing gardens trampled and destroyed. This was the regular home of our band. Some kept cows and had milk for their children, their own foods. These cows and their calves and a great many horses were driven off by the robber enemy. Of course that settled it. We had to have a war. Peopeo Tholekt, (Bird Alighting)

	State: Idaho Unit: Upper Clearwater / White Bird