This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Battle at the Big Hole and the Nez Perce pursuit saga
An account of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perces marching from Lo Lo Canyon into the Bitter Root valley, the pursuit by General Gibbon and Captain Rawn, and the dawn assault on the Big Hole Indian village. It recounts Rawn, Bradley, and Jacobs reconnoitering, the bearers of truce, the Bitter Root alliance with Charlot, and the strategic night march to attack at daybreak, ending with Joseph escaping across Trail Creek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Fi
White Bird
Canyon
Joseph
Nez Perces
Wallowa Valley
Grant
White Bird Canyon
Grangeville
Mount Idaho
Montana
Howard
Rawn
William’ Logan
Lo Lo ‘Creek
Gibbon
Fort Shaw
C. C. Rawn
Fort Missoula
Bitter Root Valley
Lo Lo Pass
Buffalo
Sage
Baker
Shaw
Rocky Mountains
Caddette's Pass
Fort. Ellis
Lo Lo Canyon
Bitter Root
The
Poker
Joe
Looking Glass
Bradley
Sitting Bull
Custer
Second Cavalry
J. W. Jacobs
Trail Creek
Big Hole
Jacobs
Stuawk
Trall Creek
C. A. Woodruff
Comba
Sanno
Browning
William
Logan