Clarks Fork Canyon to Belfry, Montana - Nez Perce National Historic Trail - Auto Tours (sitios de interés)

Clarks Fork Canyon to Belfry, Montana

On the evening of September 11 General Howard was camped on the Clarks Fork just a few miles south of Belfry when he was finally joined by a frustrated Sturgis. According to a witness “[Sturgis was] so bitterly chagrined at the escape of the Indians from one of the best laid traps of nature and man that he exclaimed: - ‘Poor as I am I would give $1,000 if I had not left this place.’” Perhaps to make up for his error in judgment, Sturgis roused his hungry men early the next morning and set off on a quick march up the Clarks Fork to the Yellowstone after the Nez Perce.