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A trail ride by 150 Appaloosa horses and riders reenacting the exodus of Chief Joseph and his Wallowa band of Nez Perce Indians who eluded the US Army in 1877, videoed on July 25, 2013. Chief Joseph led ~800 people and as many as 5000 Appaloosa horses down the supposedly impassable Clarks Fork Canyon in northwest Wyoming with it's vertical 1000 foot granite gorge, evading a cavalry unit approaching from the west and 20 companies of soldiers staked out to the east and south. When the Army closed the trap, no Nez Perce were to be found. They had vanished into blue sky or solid granite. The reenactment ride is sponsored by the National Appaloosa Club of Moscow Idaho, who completes 100 miles each summer of the Nez Perce 1300 mile odyssey. This canyon crossing is the highlight of the journey , and only comes every 13 years. The hardy and colorful Appaloosa horse is the only horse truely native to North America. Joseph's evasion tactics are still taught at the War College.