Wagon Train destruction at Cow Creek

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Cultural Narrative: 

Looking at Cow Creek where, according the writing in the back of the picture, was the "scene of wagon train destruction". It is here on September 23, 1877 the Nez Perce attacked an army entrenchment and broke into the freight storage and took what they wanted.

Community: 
Nimíipuu [Nez Perce]
Protocol: 
Nimíipuu [Nez Perce] Public Access
Category: 
Wars/Military/Conflict
Collections: 
Lucullus V. McWhorter
Original Date Description: 
This photograph was likely taken between 1910 and 1937.
Creator: 
McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil, 1860-1944
Rights: 
No known copyright. Item went into public domain 70 years after the 1944 death of the creator. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/.
Source: 
Is found in PC 85, Lucullus Virgil McWhorter Photographs https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/pc85.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Identifier: 
pc085b02f11_132-37_70-0242
Subject: 
Landscapes (Representations), Nez Perce
Type: 
Image
Format: 
JPG