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Big Hole Battlefield

Description

Big Hole Battlefield. Site of the Nez Perce encampment in 1877. The village is marked by bare lodgepoles. The Nez Perce could not bury their dead, andthe site is a graveyard. Looking north from State Road 43.

Photographer

Dr. David Goodrich

Display Date

2011 July 3

Location

Montana, Big Hole Battlefield

Collection

Small World
United States

NOAA Affiliation

NOAA (ret.)