The Battle of Pierre’s Hole follows after a white trapper and his Flathead friend murders a Gros Ventres chief.
Henry Fraeb and Milton Sublette, with a group of some 100 trappers including Nathaniel Wyeth and Captain Bonneville, are camped after leaving the 1832 Mountain Man Rendezvous. A large party of Gros Ventres approaches. One of the white trappers, Antoine Godin, and a Flathead Indian ride out to greet the Gros Ventres chief who is approaching alone, holding high his peace pipe. Godin and the Flathead kill the chief, instigating the Battle of Pierre's Hole.
