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TELEGRAPH KEPT NEZ PERCE FROM CANADIAN GOALJOSEPH AND HIS PEOPLE COULD k HAVE ESCAPED IF MILES’ ® PURSUIT KNOWNIIn Blaine county, 15 miles south of y Chinook, Is the spot where was fought n for four days, beginning Sept. 30, 1877, c one of the most Important battles in American Indian warfare. The battle was important not only because it brought together, in combat, Gen. Nelson A. Miles (then a colonel) who became America’s greatest Indian fighter, and Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces, who was undoubtedly the In- r dians’ greatest military strategist, but c also because it was the climax of a f series of maneuvers on the part of t both General Miles and Chief Joseph, which are now recognized as the greatest military feats in American ^history. , __ j tHere on July 19, 1925, nearly 50years afterwards, a party of historians and important Americans from all parts of the United States, among s them Gen. Hugh L. Scott, himself a \ great Indian fighter and friend of: i Chief Joseph, paid high tribute to the 11 military genius of General Miles and to the excellent character of Chief; ( Joseph. : ,Joseph Was Retreating j ]Chief Joseph and his band of Nez. lt;Perce warriors had successfully de- , feated General Howard’s men on the Lolo trail, fought a drawn battle with General Gibbon at the Big Hole and were rapidly retreating by a circuitous trail to join Sitting Bull in Canada, but the telegraph of the white man was working against him. Unknown to this Indian chieftain, General Miles was rapidly marching to the northwest to intercept him before he could reach the border. Had Chief
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Thompson Falls Sanders County Independent Ledger
Thompson Falls, Montana, US
Wed, Sep 23, 1942
Page 6
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