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Nez Perce

A search for a desecrated corpse, an encounter with a 900-pound bear, and a night of terror in Montana, 1879.

The Nez Percés led the Army a bitter 1,300-mile chase; when they surrendered, one of the last free Indian nations vanished into history.

In June, 1877, just one year after the Custer debacle, a new and unexpected Indian outbreak flared in the West.

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