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nowara, uiDoon, oturgis, uuies ana other officers commanding the forces of federal troops, the masterly retirement of Joseph, leading his rapidly diminishing band of warriors, with their women and children in the 1.000 mile retreat from the Big Hole battlefield to the Bear Paw mountains, are well known incidents of history.Chief Joseph II.This Chief Joseph II. of the Nez Perces was the most notable Indian of all the8.A.185fOld West. He was courageous, a master In war and strategy, of noble mind, and more nearly resembled the Cooper type of early Indian romance than any other Indian leader mentioned in history.Twenty-two years ago last October he died, old and heart-broken, on Tongue rivei*. Idaho, where he spent the last unhappy days of his life. General Miles once said of Joseph: He is the whitest Indian I have ever known. When Joseph was told of this remark, he said: General Miles cannot compliment me by calling me white. I could not Insult a good Indian worse than by saying he was like a white man. All my life I have told the truth. I cannot say the same of any white man I have ever known.nificent fighters, but after different tactics and more valorous than was true of the tribes that the American soldiers had on previous occasions tried conclusions with. They fought as bravely and as fairly as did their white enemies, and they commanded the respect of the veterans numbered among the forces that had been pitted against them.In the first clash of the famous Battle of the Big Hole, the fiftieth anniversary of which will be commemorated in a couple of months, the Nez Perces were driven back, but they did not scatter and lose their heads: they were led by a master in the art of war. although this was his first encounter with the whites; andintlwmtrGfeoifcwnitftclssw• *The Nez Perces The Nez Perces were unequalled as warriors among all the Indian tribes of the nation, brave and wary in attack, determined and resourceful in defense, yet they were not in reality a war-making nation. When the white explorers first came to the Rocky mountain region, the Nez Perces were a powerful andAlfalfa!WHEN BUYINf
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Bozeman Courier
Bozeman, Montana, US
Fri, May 13, 1927
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