The Nez Perce Chief Who Refused To Surrender 40 Miles From Canada — Then Slipped Past The Army And Escaped
Then the Big Hole happened, and hope became something different.
Big Hole: The Break
Colonel John Gibbon marched his infantry from Fort Shaw in Montana to intercept the nimíipuu as they moved through the Big Hole Valley.
He caught them on the morning of August 9, 1877.
The nimíipuu had made camp in the Big Hole to rest.
Looking Glass, who had taken on much of the leadership of the march, had convinced the council that they needed to slow down, that the army was behind them and had been outraced, that people and horses needed recovery time.
The decision to stop and rest at Big Hole was, in hindsight, catastrophic.
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