Chief Joseph Scenic Highway to Crandell Creek Bridge - Nez Perce National Historic Trail - Auto Tours (sitios de interés)

Chief Joseph Scenic Highway to Crandell Creek Bridge

Attempts by Howard and Sturgis to communicate were interrupted and met with disastrous results as the Nez Perce had killed the messengers. This left Sturgis wondering if he had missed the Nez Perce and should have been stationed instead on the Shoshone River (Stinking Water) to the south. He left the Clarks Fork and traveled south, second guessing the earlier conclusion about where the Nez Perce would emerge.

In the meantime General Howard’s troops were moving south. When General Howard crossed Crandall Creek on September 8 he intersected the trail of the Nez Perce.