Through the Valley - Nez Perce National Historic Trail - Auto Tours (sitios de interés)

Through the Valley

Stevensville to Skalkaho

Because the Nez Perce traveled slowly up the valley–12 to 14 miles a day–most settlers believed the Indians had no warlike ambitions. However, not all businessmen were willing to deal with the Nez Perce. A Corvallis merchant, P. R. Young, angrily ordered the Nez Perce out of his store and barred it shut. Later, Colonel Gibbon praised the merchant, while he chastised the Stevensville merchants.

Reports of incidents at the Corvallis and Skalkaho sod forts suggest that the settlers would have been safer in their own homes