Participants ride in the annual Chief Joseph Days Parade in Joseph, Ore., on July 26. The Nez Perce Trail commemorates the months-long flight for freedom of Chief Joseph and his people. ENTERPRISE, ...

When the Lewis and Clark expedition first set foot in the land of the Nee-Me-Poo, they were received peacefully (in English, the word Nee-Me-Poo means Nez Perce people). The year was 1805. The man who ...

Mercifully, for those of us who had enough of Lewis and Clark back in 2003-06 during the bicentennial, the doesn't focus too much on the intrepid explorers. Yesterday's post explained how and where ...

He was caught on trail cams disturbing an archaeological area on national forest land in the Blue Mountains of Washington.

This is the third travelogue in a 3-part series. Read part 1, A Road Trip to Explore Race Along the Nez Perce Trail, and part 2, The Gentrification of Wilderness. As billowy powder flocked the ...

CLARK — Back in 1877, at a point not far from here, a band of Nez Perce Indians slipped from the Absaroka Mountains onto the prairie, eluding the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry in hot pursuit. The Nez Perce ...

CODY — A small group of people from Wyoming and Montana turned out last week to learn more about the Nez Perce National Historic Trail, and to discuss plans for the trail’s management. But it was the ...

Bear Paw, Mont. — IT is a lonely, wind-swept corner of the northern Montana plains, within sight of mountains to the south and west and a scant 40 miles from the Canadian border. This shallow ...

Snow-crested summits of northeast Oregon's Wallowa Mountains lord over the emerald-colored fields far below. Melting mountain snows give rise to shimmering rivers that flow across the valley's green ...

BUTTE, Mont. — A frantic rush to save history as the Trail Creek Fire inches closer to the Big Hole National Battlefield. It’s the site of a violent attack in 1877. At the break of dawn on Aug. 9, ...

ENTERPRISE, Ore. (AP) The Nez Perce Trail running from Wallowa Lake to 40 miles from the Canadian border in Montana commemorates the months-long flight for freedom of Chief Joseph and his people. This ...