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I Will Kidnap No More Forever

by | Jun 1, 2008 | Travel & Preservation

Chief Joseph kidnaps tourists in Yellowstone Park.
Tourists had been sojourning in Yellowstone National Park each summer since just after its establishment in 1872. They kept coming during the summer of 1877, even though the big news was the flight of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians. Chief Joseph and his tribe, reluctant to move onto a reservation in Idaho, instead fled that state and crossed into Montana after battl


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