Following the Nez Perce Trail

by Cheryl Wilfong

Book by Wilfong, Cheryl

Genres: Nonfiction

384 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1990

About the author

Cheryl Wilfong teaches mindfulness meditation at Vermont Insight Meditation Center.

Master Gardener and mistress of metaphor, she delivers daily dispatches of Dharma from the garden at her blog www.themeditativegardener.blogspot.com

Reviews

[Kurt · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good guide for those people like me who are mildly obsessed with the history and culture of the Nez Perce people (aka the Nee-Me-Poo). I just got back from a four-day trip exploring the western one-fourth of the National Historic Trail—from the Wallowa Valley in Oregon to the beginning of the Lolo Trail in Idaho. I had visited most of the sites before, but this time I brought along this guide book, which I had also read and studied beforehand. It was a very helpful companion to have along.

The book is full of first-hand accounts of much of the activity that occurred at or near the sites, along with a lot of other background information and history. The author gives lots of alternatives for routes to visit the various sites depending on how adventurous you really want to be.

My one gripe is the same one that I have for nearly all travel guides: lack of decent maps and exact coordinates of the sites. I also would have appreciated a bit more description of the geography of the areas, but that is probably just me. Overall, this is a great guidebook – indispensable for travelers of the Nez Perce Trail.

[Bobbie Nelson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Was curious how this new edition compared to the previous one. In my opinion, I liked the way previous edition was organized. This new edition jumped around too much in time in their effort to make it read like a book instead of an outline. I did not finish the book.

[Bob · Rating 4 out of 5]

We used this book as an excellent guide to the Nez Perce Trail for our 8th graders studying the tribe and the war, ending with a three day trip along the trail in starting at the White Bird battlefield in Idaho.