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Survivor relives Rock Creek massacre flight from Nez Perce
A Rock Creek survivor recalls the 1878 Nez Perce war retreat from Idaho to Oklahoma and Canada. He details Big Hole battle, park raids, killings of Jory Elliott Hays, a desperate escape, pursuit through willows and timber, crossing Rock creek, and rescue at Philipsburg with town fortified and bodies recovered.
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Rock Creek
Joseph
Lemhi Valley
Idaho
Canada
Clearwater
Lo Lo
Bitter Root
Howard
Big Hole
G Bbonsville
The
Bitter Root Valley
Nez Perce
Cowan
John Shively
Shively
Bozeman
Park
Boulder
Yellowstone
Baker's
Miles
Lemhi
Cadet Pass
Blackfoot River
Deep Creek
Bear Gulch
Deer Lodge River
Deer Lodge
Willow Creek
North Willow
South Willow
South Willow Creek
Sam Spence
X. Bennett
Spence
Bennett
Quartz Gulch
West Fork
Amérine
McKay Gulch
Hays
Amos Elliott
Bill Jory
Phillipsburg
Amos
Jory
Henry Tobador
Englsh
Jones
Cash
Beaver Creek
Ross’ Fork
Willows
Baldy
F. D. Brown
Cogswell Gulch
H. BE. Herman
Hays and
Wilcott
Schuh Ranch
Schuh
Elliott
Jerome Matthews
Dr. Bowie
John McLean
McLeean
Eliott
Philipsburg
Hale
Hardy
McLean
Hope Mill
Dig Hole
Jones, Eliott
Montana