Seventeen volunteers fought a battle with Indians two thousand feet east of this point on the 5th day of July 1877 during the Nez Perce Indian War, suffering two killed and three wounded. They were Captain D.B. Randall, C.M. Day, James Buchanan, H.C. Johnson, F.A. Fenn, Frank D. Vansise, L.P. Wilmot, A.D. Bartley, Charles Johnson, A.B. Leland, E.J. Bunker, Charles W. Case, B.F. Evans, J.L. Cearley, William B. Beemer, D.H. Howser, and George Riggins.