Steptoe Battlefield State Park Heritage Site Maps

Steptoe Battlefield State Park Heritage Site Description

Steptoe Battlefield State Park Heritage Site is a four-acre day-use park in Rosalia. The site commemorates a battle between U.S. Army forces led by Colonel Edward Steptoe and several Native American tribes from eastern Washington that occurred in 1858. In the years preceding the battle, tensions between Native Americans and the U.S. Government grew quickly as Euro-American settlers moved into tribal territory in eastern Washington (then part of the Territory of Washington). On May 6, 1858, Colonel Steptoe led a group of 160 soldiers north from Fort Walla Walla across the Snake River and into