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An Encounter at Nez Perce Creek

Grizzly in Yellowstone. Photo: NPS / Jim Peaco.

Late June, Nez Perce Creek, Yellowstone. I was following closely the path the renegade Nez Perce took 115 years ago, a trail that allowed them to put some space between themselves and homicidal General Otis Howard and his US Army troops. Even then Yellowstone, already a national park, stood as a sanctuary of freedom and wilderness.

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