ENCORE: NEZ PERCÉ WAR Ep. 6 | “Fight No More Forever”

Legends of the Old West

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The Nez Percé have performed an extraordinary feat: they have traveled more than 1,300 miles and repelled three American armies in a series of battles and smaller skirmishes. But they are sore and exhausted. They are within reach of the Canadian border and freedom, but another American army joins the hunt and forces the final showdown between the Nez Percé and the United States. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.0	When the Nez Perce awoke on the morning of September 16th, 1877, they were in the hills of
1:20.7	central Montana, several miles north of the place that would soon be the city of Billings.
1:26.5	They had been traveling for two solid months,
1:29.4	and many in the group had been running and fighting for an additional month on top of that.
1:35.0	Their ancestral homes were in the borderlands between Idaho, Washington, and Oregon, but they had
1:40.7	chosen to flee rather than to submit to life on a reservation.
1:50.2	Since the conflict that would be called the Nez Perce War began in earnest on June 14th,
1:57.5	five bands had fought five sizable engagements against the U.S. Army and a host of smaller skirmishes in between.
2:02.5	They had attacked numerous white settlements and killed dozens of white settlers.
2:10.1	They had traveled 1,300 miles, crossed two major mountain ranges, and forded an uncountable number of streams, creeks, and rivers. They had been denied sanctuary by, or worse, attacked by,
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