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Diary of Weikert recounts 1877 Yellowstone ambush by Nez Perces
Andrew J. Weikert leads a ten man party from Helena to Yellowstone with Dietrich Pfister Roberts Kenck and others. Indians ambush the group near the Grand Canyon killing Kenck and wounding Stewart. Weikert is wounded but survives as the party escapes to Mammoth Springs. Dietrich later killed. Stewart mortally wounded. Stone and Ben Stone escape. The diary details days of travel from Aug 13 to Aug 26 1877 with vivid descriptions of Mammoth Hot Springs Tower Falls and Yellowstone Falls while the group fights to reach safety Santa.
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Orty
Helena
Yellowstone National Park
Montana
Joseph
Park
Howard
Yellowstone River
Grand Canyon
Mammoth Hot Springs
Andrew J. Weikert
Weikert
Frederick Pfister
Richard Dietrich
Joseph Roberts
Charles Kenck
Jack Stewart
August Fuller
Leslie Wilkie
Roberts
Fuller
Virginia City
Fred Pfister
Joe Roberts
Mammoth Springs
Tower Falls
Yellowstone Falls
Yellowstone Lake
Prickly Pear
Pete
Crow Creek Divide
Rodersburg
Jefferson River
Dun
Gallatin Canyon
Gallatin Crossing
Bozeman
Miles
Traut
Pfister
Dietrich
Mount Washburn
Fred
Yellowstone
Upper Falls
Joe
Lower Falls
Whitey
Wilkie
Sulphur Mountain
Nez Perces
Reda
Key
Ben Stone
Stove
Wilkie and I
Virginia
Duncan
Stewart
Charles Kenek
Lie
Kenck
Hey
Jie
Stone
George Cowan
Ida Carpenter
Frank
Andy
Lielena
Boxeman
Jim McCartney
Mack
Hivn
Stoner
Tiffin
Derrick
Deitrich
Ife
Ben
McCartney
Keuck
Smething
Beck