Toohoolhoolzote

Toohoolhoolzote
Toohoolhoozote (Sound made when striking any vibrant timber or metal with a hard substance)[1]
Nez Perce[1] Pikunan band[2] leader
Personal details
Bornc. 1820s[2]
DiedSeptember 30, 1877[2][3][4]
Bear Paw Mountains, Montana
Cause of deathBattle of Bear Paw[2]
Known forNez Perce War

Toohoolhoolzote (born c. 1820s, died September 30, 1877) was a Nez Perce leader who fought in the Nez Perce War. He fought after first advocating peace, and died at the Battle of Bear Paw.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b c McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil (1940). Yellow Wolf: His Own Story. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, Ltd. pp. 33–51.
  2. ^ a b c d e Forczyk, Robert (2011). Nez Perce 1877: The Last Flight. Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, Ltd. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-84908-191-7.
  3. ^ Hampton, Bruce. Children of Grace: The Nez Perce War of 1877, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1994, p 292.
  4. ^ Jerome A. Greene and Alvin M. Josephy. Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The Us Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis, Montana Historical Society Press, 2000, p 291.