It happened.

White Bird refused the terms offered on October 5, 1877.

He escaped the Bear Paw area.

He reached Canada.

The people who followed him in the subsequent days brought the total of those who reached Canada to approximately 300.

The real story, as promised, is deeper than the headline.

It is the story of a hundred days of movement across a thousand miles, of a council of leaders trying to navigate an impossible situation, of families trying to stay alive while an army tried to stop them, of decisions made in extremity that cannot be judged from comfort.

It is the story of two men — Joseph and White Bird — who looked at the same impossible situation on October 5, 1877, and reached different conclusions, and of why both of them were right about something important.