Nez Perce 1877 by Robert Forczyk

Author:Robert Forczyk
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nez Perce 1877: The last fight
ISBN: 9781472805256
Publisher: Osprey Publishing

BATTLE OF THE CLEARWATER

While Howard was fumbling about trying to get back across the Salmon River and Perry was sitting on his hands at Norton’s Ranch, it was the armed civilian volunteers under Colonel Edward McConville who took up the pursuit of the Nez Perce. The 31-year-old McConville was no amateur; he had fought as a Union cavalryman during the Civil War and then fought Apaches in Arizona before retiring to Idaho in 1873. Volunteers had been coming in from Lewiston, Mount Idaho, Grangeville and other towns since word of the initial Nez Perce raids went out and by July 8 McConville had gathered 75 men at Norton’s Ranch. On his own initiative, he sent scouts out to follow the Nez Perce trail past the post and they soon discovered the new village on the Clearwater. McConville’s volunteers occupied a hill on the west side of the Clearwater from which they could monitor the Nez Perce village and sent couriers to provide Howard with the location of the hostile camp. McConville’s volunteers then sat back and waited for the army to arrive.

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