EARLY EPISODE: The Nez Perce War

FYI, horseshoes don't hurt horses. They attach to the equivalent of the ends of their fingernails that do not have any nerve endings. It's also why you can trim their hooves and it doesn't cause them any pain.

Rosemary S Callahan Gray

Hurray for HEMA! Looks like the closest club to Joe is in Tblisi, though, which is not very close... https://www.hemaalliance.com/club-finders

Gabriel Laycock

1:00:52 for Tom's perfect past-tense.

Brandon P

Man, I grew up in Idaho and we were "taught" about this in elementary school in the early 2000's. We had to memorize and recite Chief Joseph's surrender, but we were told that they surrendered so close to the border because they "didn't know they where so close" and there was, of course, no mention of the aftermath and the genocide of the tribe. We were told that they where given blankets and food and treated well by the soldiers. It pisses me off how badly they whitewashed everything about this story to fit the "inevitable decline of the noble savage" narrative

Thanks for the episode Joe. It felt like a sucker punch I knew was coming, but could do nothing to prevent. 10/10

Stuart Rogers

Gori in Georgia used to have a town-wide melee like that

Henry Read

I am also cha cha cha pilled from the future I can say my evidence for the Abba conspiracy is that Greece didn't give their points to Cyprus for like the second time since 1990

Ellen

It doesn’t *really* change the content of the episode, but worth noting the geography around the Clearwater River is extremely mountainous - you’re basically in the heart of the Rockies. Certain parts are in valleys, but still far from flat. It’s the kind of terrain the US Army loved to send groups of soldiers to their deaths in - they had no clue how to navigate, let alone fight, in the Mountain west. -Montanan who would die in the mountains without OnX

I had thought I had heard this story before on a pod cast and it was History that does suck ep 79. I sometimes think they can be a little corny or look at something with rose colored glasses but I thought this was one of their better ones.

This was so good, y'all. Thank you for such good research and thoughtful presentation of a deeply painful part of history.

Melevolent

Washingtonian here - ALL MY HOMIES HATE ISAAC STEVENS

Sean Hakala

CHA CHA CHA should have won, thanks america for exporting the electoral college to europe

To demonstrate Joe's point, I was the poor kid at the rich kid's high school. I got, objectively, a very good, high quality education. I knew of the Nez Perce people, by which I mean it was a name that was mentioned in my US history class, I vaguely recall them being indigenous to like... Nebraska [lol wrong]?? but I know literally nothing else about them.

The MILF Formerly Known as Tzippi