Phil Konstantin's 2003 Vacation: Page A = Nez Perce Area - Grangeville to Kamiah, Idaho



Page 2003 - A

Grangeville, Idaho to Kamiah, Idaho


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This picture was taken the morning of May 18, 2003, not far from Grangeville, Idaho.


This is the entry from my book: "Wahlitits and two other members of White Bird’s Band of Nez Perce killed a man named Richard Devine. The next day they killed three more men."




Tolo Lake...





There is quite a grade between Grangeville and White Bird. At this elevation, the clouds were always close.





This sign marks the area of the White Bird Battlegrounds near Highway 95, south of Grangeville.


This is the entry from my book for June 15, 1877: "The Nez Perce deadline to be on the reservation arrived. Whites were at Grangeville."



















The signs are very informational.





This map/picture shows the movements of the different groups.


The entry from my book: "Another battle took place between the army and the Nez Perce. The army was led by Captain David Perry. There were approximately 140 warriors in the group. This was called the Battle of White Bird Canyon. The army unit had difficulty coordinating its actions because one trumpeter had been killed and the other lost his trumpet. According to army records, during the retreat First Lieutenant William Parnell, First Cavalry, would return and rescue a soldier whose horse had been shot out from under him. For these actions, Parnell would be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Lieutenant E. R. Theller and thirty-three soldiers were killed. No Nez Perce casualties were reported. The battlefield was at White Bird, south of Grangeville, Idaho."




...more of the map...





This is a panoramic view of four merged pictures showing the area on the map/picture above. From left to right is northeast to southeast. "H" hill is the notch on the right.





"Before you, to the westward lies the historic Whitebird Battleground of the Nez Perce Indian War in which thirty-five men gave up their lives in service for their country. June 17, 1877 --- Beneath this shaft lies one of those brave men laid to rest where he fell."





The top horizontal cut through the hills is Highway 95. The cut just below that is a road through the Whitebird battlefield. This is looking south.





The wispy tendrils of condensation gently draped themselves around the shoulders of the verdent forest's conifer sentinels.





The Clearwater River battle took place near Highway 13 on the east side of the Nez Perce reservation, near Stites, Idaho.





The Clearwater River and the area where the battle took place.


The entry from my book: "General Oliver Howard, called 'Cut Arm' or 'One Armed Soldier Chief' by the Indians, was leading 550 First Cavalry, Twenty-First Infantry, and Fourth Artillery soldiers when they spotted the Nez Perce along the Clearwater River and Cottonwood Creek. The fighting lasted until the next day, when the army got reinforcements. The Nez Perce then retreat to the north. During the fighting the army reported that it lost fifteen dead and twenty-five wounded soldiers and killed twenty-three warriors. Accounts from Nez Perce survivors put their losses at only four. First Lieutenant Charles F. Humphrey, Fourth Artillery, “voluntarily and successfully conducted in the face of withering fire, a party which recovered possession of an abandoned howitzer and two Gatling guns lying between the lines a few yards from the Indians.” For his actions, Humphrey would be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. The fighting lasted through the next day."




A sign in English and phonetic Nez Perce at the Nez Perce National Historic Park (East Kamiah Site).





...details of the story...





This is the "Heart of the Monster" in Kamiah, Idaho on the Nez Perce's reservation.










...another look at the "Heart of the Monster"...





I thought this area was very beautiful. The elevation here is apporoximately 1,200 feet.





Details of the flowering bush seen in the picture above.


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Page 2003: Spokane, Washington to Grangeville, Idaho
Page 2003a: Grangeville, Idaho to Kamiah, Idaho
Page 2003b: Kamiah to Lolo Pass
Page 2003c: Lolo, Montana to Salmon, Idaho
Page 2003d: Salmon, Idaho to Gilmore Summit, Idaho
Page 2003e: Kilgore, Idaho to Yellowstone National Park
Page 2003f: More Yellowstone
Page 2003g: Grand Tetons to Lander, Wyoming
Page 2003h: Wind River Canyon to Legend Rock, Wyoming
Page 2003i: Medicine Lodge State Archaeological Site to Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite, Wyoming
Page 2003j: Shell Creek Falls to Wagon Box Battlefield, Wyoming
Page 2003k: Rosebud Battlefield to Little Bighorn Battlefield, Montana
Page 2003l: Little Bighorn Battlefield to Crow Agency, Montana
Page 2003m: Fetterman Battlfield to Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming
Page 2003n: Crazy Woman Creek to Fort Fetterman, Wyoming
Page 2003o: Oregon Trail to Fort Laramie, Wyoming
Page 2003p: Grattan Battlefield, Wyoming to Fort Robinson, Nebraska
Page 2003q: Hudson-Meng Bison Bonebed, Nebraska to Crazy Horse Monument, South Dakota
Page 2003r: Devil's Tower, Wyoming
Page 2003s: Rapid City to Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Page 2003t: Eagle Butte Powwow to the Blessing Ceremony
Page 2003u: Sakakawea Monument to Fort Buford
Page 2003v: Fort Union to Old Fort Peck
Page 2003w: Cree Crossing to Fort Assiniboine
Page 2003x: Glacier Park
Page 2003y: Glacier #2 to Missoula, Montana
Page 2003z: blank (so far)