A shelter on U.S. Highway 95 gives you a good overview of the site. A walking tour of the Battlefield is accessible via the old spiral highway. On July 11 Gen. O. O. Howard crossed the Clearwater and hoped to take the Nez Perce by surprise. His hopes came to naught, and the fighting ended with the Nez Perce withdrawing. Idaho Heart of the Monster East Kamiah is the location of the Heart of the Monster, ancestral birthplace of the Nez Perce Tribe.
Audio stations tell the legend.
Rev. and Mrs. Asa Smith established a mission in the Kamiah area. Unsuited to the demands of such work, the Smiths left in 1841. Here Lewis and Clark camped in the spring of 1806 while they waited or the snow in the mountain passes to melt. At this site, Lewis and Clark rested and built canoes with the help of the Nez Perce, out of hollowed-out logs for the final leg of their trip to the Pacific. For perhaps 10,000 years this site has been inhabited by the Nez Perce and their ancestors.