Dead Mule Trail, Idaho.

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  SKU: 16095

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• PUBLISHER: Published for Harper's Weekly, New York, September 29,1877.

• MEDIUM: Wood engraving,

  DATE: 1877.

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 10 15/16 x 9 1/4" (27.7 x 23.4 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: A 19th-century perspective of Dead Mule Trail, Idaho, captured as a wood engraving and hand-colored to highlight the details. From a sketch by an Army officer, it depicts men on horseback with pack mules ascending a steep mountain trail during the Nez Perce War in 1877.<br><br> The Nez Perce War of 1877 was an armed conflict in the Western United States between several bands of the Nez Perce tribe, along with a small band of the Palouse tribe, and the United States Army. Occurring from June to October, the war began when the Nez Perce, labeled as "non-treaty Indians," refused to cede their ancestral lands and move to a reservation in Idaho Territory, in violation of the 1855 Treaty of Walla Walla. Following initial engagements, the Nez Perce undertook a 1,170-mile retreat, seeking aid from the Crow tribe and later sanctuary with the Lakota under Sitting Bull in Canada. The U.S. Army pursued them, resulting in a series of battles. The war concluded with a five-day battle near Montana's Bears Paw Mountains, just 40 miles from the Canadian border, where most of the surviving Nez Perce, led by Chief Joseph, surrendered.

• ADDITIONAL INFO: This piece is in a mat for handling.

• CONDITION: Good condition and color.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Town Views - United States , Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa