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218 its settlement by the whites that the famous Nez Perce War was fought."—Major Lee Moorhouse.

The Nez Perce War came about after this manner: "Chief Joseph, who had about 500 Nez Perce Indians as his following, had laid claim to the boundary as established

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by the treaty of 1855, especially that country west of the Snake River in Oregon and the Wallowa Valley. . . . President Grant conceded it to the Nez Perces in his executive order of June 16, 1873, but on June 10, 1875, this order was revoked, and all that part of Oregon west of the Snake River, embracing the Wallowa Valley, was restored to the public domain. In the early part of 1877, the United States decided to have Chief Joseph and his followers removed