Battle of Canyon Creek | |||||||
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Part of the Nez Perce War | |||||||
![]() Chief Joseph and his band in the spring of 1877. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
![]() Crow Indians | Nez Perce | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Samuel D. Sturgis Lewis Merrill Frederick Benteen |
Chief Joseph Looking Glass | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
425 soldiers about 100 White and Indian scouts | <200 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
4 killed 11 wounded |
3 killed 3 wounded | ||||||
Location in the United States Location in Montana Territory |
The Battle of Canyon Creek was a military engagement in Montana Territory between the Nez Perce Indians and the United States Army's 7th Cavalry. The battle was part of the larger Indian Wars of the latter 19th century and the immediate Nez Perce War. It took place on September 13, 1877, west of present-day Billings in Yellowstone County, in the canyons and benches around Canyon Creek.[2]