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- Chief Joseph led about 750 people (including women, children and the elderly) along with all their belongings and a herd of horses on a 1,400 mile retreat to find safety against about 2,000 US troops---the US General chasing them was General Oliver O. Howard---Howard was humane but was afraid that Joseph could unify all the western tribes against the US--- Joseph eventually decided to find safety in Canada---Joseph knew that he was a few days ahead of the US troops chasing him so, in late September 1877, he and his people stopped to rest only 40 miles south of Canada (Bear Paw, Montana)--it was there that they were overtaken by US troops, which had been sent from the east by railroad
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