Private Idaho

Despite the name of the B-52s song, much of the land in Idaho is managed by federal agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management. Lots of reservations for Native American nations, too. Five years ago we stayed overnight with a friend whose land is on the Nez Perce reservation.

Speaking of the Nez Perce, we have been also partly following the Nez Perce National Historic Trail on this trip. The route documents the flight of Chief Joseph and his followers from the U.S. Army in 1877. Apparently, everyone had forgotten how nice the tribe was to Lewis and Clark seventy-two years earlier. We were about 50 miles away from the Bear Paw Battlefield in Montana near the Canadian border where Chief Joseph was forced to surrender. This was where he uttered his famous words: "I will fight no more forever."