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  • Jackson Sundown Cabin
  • House; Nez Perce
  • Site of Jackson Sundown's cabin, a famous Native American horseman. An old cabin, built by Jackson Sundown, a famous Native American horsemen, who as a child escaped from the c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Bear Paw battlefield) to a refuge in Canada. He...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Thomas Waters at time of death
  • Waters, Thomas; Nez Perce
  • Photo of Thomas Waters of Nez Perce.
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  • Gravestone of Bernard A. Brooks at qém’es (Camas) Meadows Battlefield
  • Campaigns, Military; Battlefields across America; Historic sites; Camas Prairie (Idaho); Sepulchral monuments--West (U.S.); Nez Perce
  • Photograph of Bernard A. Brooks gravestone at the scene where the qém’es (Camas) Meadows Battle, also known as the Battle of qém’es (Camas) Creek, took place. The grave is in the center of the battlefield with no other graves around it. The battle...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Looking down Little House towards Crow Agency
  • Campaigns & battles, Battlefields--Montana--Little Big Horn; Land--Hills; Historic sites--Battlefields; Indians of North America; Wars--Campaigns of North America; Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876; Kopac, Emil
  • A view of the site of the Battle of the Little Big Horn also known as the Battle of Greasy Grass Creek, which took place in 1876 between the U.S. Army and the Lakota-Northern Cheyenne. Caption on verso of photograph reads "Looking down 'Little...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Ash Hollow Battlefield on Blue Creek
  • Battlefields--Washington (State)--White Bird Battlefield; Camps--Indian encampments; Cavalry--United States Army--Washington (State)--Cottonwood; Landscape photography; Military retreats; Passes--Mountain passes; Valleys--Canyons; War--War...
  • This battle was the defining engagement of a short war between the U.S. and the Sioux sparked by disputes over violations of the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851). 600 U.S. soldiers engaged 250 Sioux, which resulted in 86 war casualties. Consequently,...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Valley of the ' ickum'kiléelixpe (Big Hole)
  • Battlefields--Montana--Big Hole Battlefield; Land--Mountains; Valleys--Canyons; Historic sites--Montana; Gunfights; Bannack Yellowstone Park; Clark's Fork; Joseph, Gibbons; Nez Perce
  • Scenic view of the valley in which the 'ickum'kiléelixpe (Bighole Battle) took place. On September 9th, hinmatóoyalahtq’it (Chief Joseph) led his warriors against General Gibbon's army, who attacked the Nez Perce and drove them from their village....
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  • Looking Across the Battlefield at c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Bear Paw Mountain)
  • Battlefields--Montana--Bear Paw Battlefield; Cavalry--United States Army--Washington (state)--Bear Paw; Land--Mountains; Land--Rock formations; Landscape photographs; Military retreats; Mountains (Montana); Passes--Mountain passes; Peace; Peace...
  • Landscape view across the battlefield at c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Bear Paw Mountain) where the Nez Perce dug shelter pits for the noncombatants. With freezing weather and limited food supplies, suffering was very great among the Nez Perce. Though...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • hímiin maqsmáqs’ (Yellow Wolf's) Winchester Carbine Model 66.44 Rim Fire tim’úuni (rifle)
  • Winchester rifle; Weapons; Campaigns & battles; Nimíipuu; Nez Perce
  • This tim’úuni (rifle) belonged to Nimíipuu (Nez Perce) warrior hímiin maqsmáqs (Yellow Wolf) and he carried it with him throughout the majority of the Nez Perce War of 1877. The tim’úuni (rifle), a Winchester Carbine Model 66.44 Rim Fire, was...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Gravestone of Bernard A. Brooks at qém’es (Camas) Meadows Battlefield
  • Campaigns, Military; Battlefields across America; Historic sites; Camas Prairie (Idaho); Nez Perce
  • A scenic view of the site of the qém’es (Camas) Meadows Battle, also known as the Battle of qém’es (Camas) Creek, which consisted of two skirmishes and took place in 1877 during the Nez Perce War. General Oliver O. Howard and the Nez Perce army...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Custer's Battlefield
  • Battlefields--Montana; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876; Historic sites--Montana; Indians of North America; Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876; Kopac, Emil
  • Site of the Battle of Little Big Horn, which took place in 1876 between the U.S. Army and the Lakota-Northern Cheyenne, and which is also known as Custer's Last Stand. Native Americans refer to it as the Battle of A view of the site of the Battle...
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  • View across the Custer Battlefield
  • Campaigns & battles, Battlefields--Montana--Little Big Horn; Land--Hills; Historic sites--Battlefields; Indians of North America; Wars--Campaigns of North America; Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876; Kopac, Emil
  • Looking across the Custer battlefield from a southeasterly direction. The Battle of Little Big Horn was also known as Custer's Last Stand, and by the Native Americans it is referred to as the Battle of Greasy Grass Creek. This was a battle between...
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  • Custer's Battlefield
  • Battlefields--Montana; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876; Historic sites--Montana; Indians of North America; Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876; Kopac, Emil
  • Site of the Battle of Little Big Horn, which took place in 1876 between the U.S. Army and the Lakota-Northern Cheyenne, and which is also known as Custer's Last Stand. Native Americans refer to it as the Battle of A view of the site of the Battle...
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  • Yellow Bull
  • Warriors; Nez Perce--Wars, 1877; Yellow Bull; Nez Perce
  • Nez Perce Warrior, 1877. sáapsis ‘ilp’ílp (Red Moccasin Tops), son of Yellow Bull, also took part in the killings leading up to the Nez Perce War of 1877. Yellow Bull was opposed to the use of violence against white settlers. However, sáapsis...
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  • Wagon Train destruction at Cow Creek
  • Landscapes (Representations); Nez Perce
  • Looking at Cow Creek where, according the writing in the back of the picture, was the "scene of wagon train destruction". It is here on September 23, 1877 the Nez Perce attacked an army entrenchment and broke into the freight storage and took what...
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  • Revolver barrel
  • Colt revolver; Campaigns & battles; Weapons; Nimíipuu; Nez Perce
  • This barrel and chamber is from a .36 caliber cap and ball Colt 1851 Navy Revolver. The Colt 1851 Navy Revolver, originally designed by Samuel Colt, could hold six rounds of bullets and was mass produced by Colt's Manufacturing Company from the...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection

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