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Nez Perce War
Location
of sign - I-15 Rest Area near Dubois, Idaho at exit 167
Photo
taken- June 2008
Text
of sign:
Nez Perce War
When
General O.O. Howard tried to get more than 600 Nez Perce Indians to
settle on a North Idaho reservation in 1877, he ran
into
a lot of trouble here.
On
their way to Yellowstone Park, Chief Joseph's Nez Perce people
reached Hole in the Rock Station
(four
miles north of here) on August 16, and shut down stage service to
Montana. Howard's cavalry and volunteers followed only a
day
behind until August 20, when an Indian force made off with more than
100 Army mules. That raid halted military pursuit and
forced
Howard to continue his Nez Perce campaign for six more weeks.
Text
prepared by the Idaho Historical Society Marker made &
installed by Idaho Transportation Department.
Graphics
on the sign - In addition to the text there is a map of Idaho
with the signs location marked and the notation that this is
sign
number 427.
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