Indian Pond and Pelican Creek - Nez Perce National Historic Trail - Auto Tours (sitios de interés)

Indian Pond and Pelican Creek

August 26, 1877 - Nez Perce camp at Indian Pond

The main band of Nez Perce camped another night around Indian Pond, just north of Yellowstone Lake. Oral histories recount how there were so many traveling in this group that many were still arriving in camp as the first began to leave camp early the next morning. The Nez Perce continued north and northeast from Indian Pond, following the Pelican drainage to the heart of the Absaroka mountain range.

Only one day behind, Sergeant Fisher and his scouting party of twenty or so Bannock Indians attempted to follow the Nez Perce upstream to Indian Pond and then into the Absaroka mountains. They were deterred by the rugged terrain and numerous downed trees.