BUTTE, Mont. — A frantic rush to save history as the Trail Creek Fire inches closer to the Big Hole National Battlefield. It’s the site of a violent attack in 1877. At the break of dawn on Aug. 9, ...

This is the third travelogue in a 3-part series. Read part 1, A Road Trip to Explore Race Along the Nez Perce Trail, and part 2, The Gentrification of Wilderness. As billowy powder flocked the ...

CLARK — Back in 1877, at a point not far from here, a band of Nez Perce Indians slipped from the Absaroka Mountains onto the prairie, eluding the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry in hot pursuit. The Nez Perce ...

CODY — A small group of people from Wyoming and Montana turned out last week to learn more about the Nez Perce National Historic Trail, and to discuss plans for the trail’s management. But it was the ...

If it was in a Toyota Corolla, that'd be no big deal. But Smith will have done all of it on foot. Since 1992, the 52-year-old self-taught professional photographer from Lakewood, Wash., has walked the ...

NEZ PERCE TRAIL, Idaho - A trail, and its story, snakes through thousands of ponderosa and lodgepole pines high in the Bitterroot Mountains. While most may never get near it, there are those who can ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. More than 30 community members from West Yellowstone and the surrounding areas came together at ...

BUTTE, Mont. • This summer, archaeologist Dan Eakin’s work investigating the route and campsites of the Nez Perce Indians as they fled the U.S. Army in 1877 across Yellowstone National Park was ...

WISDOM - A seemingly endless string of appaloosa horses carrying riders from all over the world rode quietly across a southwestern Montana hillside, green with pasture, into the Big Hole National ...

REUBENS, Idaho — A hiker in Nez Perce County was killed on Saturday morning after being hit by a falling rock. The Nez Perce County Sheriff's Office says deputies responded to a railroad trail about 4 ...