Personal Recollections of Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil WarWerner Company, 1897 - 591 pages |
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Nelson Appleton Miles. CHAPTER XX . THE NEZ PERCÉ CAMPAIGN . Character of the Nez Percés - The Wallowa Valley - Chief Joseph - How the War Was Begun - Howard and Gibbon's Campaigns - Preparations for the Movement The Troops Detailed ...
Nelson Appleton Miles. CHAPTER XX . THE NEZ PERCÉ CAMPAIGN . Character of the Nez Percés - The Wallowa Valley - Chief Joseph - How the War Was Begun - Howard and Gibbon's Campaigns - Preparations for the Movement The Troops Detailed ...
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... Nez Percés Indians . They continued their return journey over the moun- tains to the head waters of the Yellowstone , passed down the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers , and , after two years and four months absence , and after having ...
... Nez Percés Indians . They continued their return journey over the moun- tains to the head waters of the Yellowstone , passed down the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers , and , after two years and four months absence , and after having ...
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... Nez Percés , the Flatheads , and many other tribes of Indians until then uncontaminated by exotic influences , and what were their characteristics ? " They were friendly in their dispositions and honest to the most scrupulous degree in ...
... Nez Percés , the Flatheads , and many other tribes of Indians until then uncontaminated by exotic influences , and what were their characteristics ? " They were friendly in their dispositions and honest to the most scrupulous degree in ...
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... Nez Percés for the white man . Colonel Boone , Colonel Bent , General Harney and others speak in the highest praise of the Cheyennes . The Indian's civility to strangers has been remarked by all the early writers , and countless ...
... Nez Percés for the white man . Colonel Boone , Colonel Bent , General Harney and others speak in the highest praise of the Cheyennes . The Indian's civility to strangers has been remarked by all the early writers , and countless ...
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Nelson Appleton Miles. CHAPTER XX . THE NEZ PERCÉ CAMPAIGN — CHARACTER OF THE NEZ PERCÉS - THE WALLOWA VALLEY - CHIEF JOSEPH HOW THE WAR WAS BEGUN HOWARD AND GIBBON'S CAMPAIGNS PREPARATIONS FOR THE MOVEMENT — — THE TROOPS DETAILED - THE ...
Nelson Appleton Miles. CHAPTER XX . THE NEZ PERCÉ CAMPAIGN — CHARACTER OF THE NEZ PERCÉS - THE WALLOWA VALLEY - CHIEF JOSEPH HOW THE WAR WAS BEGUN HOWARD AND GIBBON'S CAMPAIGNS PREPARATIONS FOR THE MOVEMENT — — THE TROOPS DETAILED - THE ...
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American animals Apache Arizona army band Black Hawk body buffalo camp campaign cañon Captain captured Cavalry Cheyennes chief Chief Joseph civilization Colonel Columbia command Crazy Horse Creek Custer Dakota distance enemy engaged entire expedition feet fifty fight fire force Fort Apache Fort Bowie Fort Buford Fort Keogh Fort Leavenworth herd horses hostile hundred miles hunting Indian Territory Infantry Kansas Keokuk killed known Lake Lame Deer land large number Lieutenant Little Big Horn Mexicans Mexico military Missouri Missouri River mound-builder mountains moved nearly Nez Percés night Northern officers Oregon Pacific party passed peace plains ponies prairie race region result rifle Rosebud savage scouts sent settlements Sioux Sitting Bull snow soldiers supplies surrender thousand tion Tongue River trail treaty tribes troops United valley village warriors Washington western Whitman wild winter wounded Yellowstone