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Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Reasons

Eruption and White Bird Canyon

Looking Glass's Camp and Cottonwood

Clearwater

Kamiah, Weippe, and Fort Fizzle

Bitterroot and the Big Hole

Camas Meadows

The National Park

Canyon Creek

Cow Island and Cow Creek Canyon

current topic Yellowstone Command

Bear's Paw: Attack and Defense

Bear's Paw: Siege and Surrender

Consequences

Epilogue

Appendix A

Appendix B

Bibliography



Nez Perce Summer, 1877
Chapter 11: Yellowstone Command
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Chapter 11:
Yellowstone Command (continued)


Gallery of U. S. Military Participants

Howard
Brigadier General Oliver Otis Howard, Commander, Department of the Columbia
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washington, D. C.
Gibbon
Colonel John Gibbon, Seventh Infantry
Western History Department, Denver Public Library
Miles
Colonel Nelson A. Miles Fifth Infantry
Stanley Morrow, photographer; courtesy Brian C. Pohanka
Sturgis
Colonel Samuel D. Sturgis, Seventh Cavalry, ca. 1864
Western History Department, Denver Public Library
Gilbert
Lieutenant Colonel Charles C. Gilbert, Seventh Infantry
Special Collections, U.S. Military Academy Library, West Point, N.Y.
Tilton
Surgeon (Major)
Henry R. Tilton

National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md.
Wood
Major Henry Clay Wood, Assistant Adjutant General, Department of the Columbia
Officers . . . Who Served in the Civil War
Babbitt
Captain Lawrence S. Babbitt, Ordnance Department, Department of the Columbia
Companions of the Military Order
Benteen
Captain Frederick W. Benteen, Company H, Seventh Cavalry
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Crow Agency, Mont.
Jocelyn
Captain Stephen P. Jocelyn, Company B, Twenty-first Infantry
Officers . . . Who Served in the Civil War
Godfrey
Captain Edward S. Godfrey, Company D, Seventh Cavalry
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Crow Agency, Mont.
Hale
Captain Owen Hale, Company K, Seventh Cavalry
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Crow Agency, Mont.
Miles
Captain Evan Miles, Twenty-first Infantry
Officers . . . Who Served in the Civil War
Moylan
Captain Myles Moylan, Company A, Seventh Cavalry
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Crow Agency, Mont.
Perry
Captain David Perry, First Cavalry
Nez Perce National Historical Park, Spalding, Idaho
Randall
Captain Darius Bullock Randall, Idaho volunteer
Courtesy Ruby Rylaarsdam
Snyder
Captain Simon Snyder, Company F, Fifth Infantry
Miles, Personal Recollections
Baird
First Lieutenant and Adjutant George W. Baird, Fifth Infantry
Miles, Personal Recollections
Benson
First Lieutenant Henry M. Benson, Seventh Infantry
Hunt, "Battle of Big Hole"
Carter
First Lieutenant Mason Carter, Company I, Fifth Infantry
Frontier Army Museum, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.
Parnell
First Lieutenant William R. Parnell, Company H, First Cavalry
Courtesy Brad Dahlquist
Romeyn
First Lieutenant Henry Romeyn, Company G, Fifth Infantry
Officers . . . Who Served in the Civil War
Biddle
Second Lieutenant Jonathan Williams Biddle, Company K, Seventh Cavalry
Special Collections, University of Oregon Library, Eugene
Jerome
Second Lieutenant Lovell H. Jerome, Company H, Second Cavalry
Montana Historical Society, Helena
Long
Second Lieutenant Oscar F. Long, Fifth Infantry
The Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.
Rains
Second Lieutenant Sevier McClellan Rains, Company L, First Cavalry, in 1876
Special Collections, U.S. Military Academy Library, West Point, N.Y.
Wood
Second Lieutenant Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Twenty-first Infantry
Special Collections, U.S. Military Academy Library, West Point, N.Y.
Woodruff
Second Lieutenant Charles A. Woodruff, Seventh Infantry
Officers . . . Who Served in the Civil War
Lee
Corporal Roman D. Lee, Company H, First Cavalry, first army fatality in the Nez Perce War
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Fisher
Stanton G. Fisher, civilian scout for General Howard
Brady, Northwestern Fights and Fighters
Hump
Hump, Minneconjou Lakota scout for Miles's command, photographed in the 1890s
R. L. Kelly, photographer; South Dakota State Historical Society, Pierre
Kelly
Luther S. "Yellowstone" Kelly, scout for Miles's command
Western History Department, Denver Public Library
Moon
Young Two Moon, Northern Cheyenne scout for Miles's command
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.



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