Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Rock Creek Station might have faded into obscurity, like so many other stage and Pony Express stations, except for one fateful day in 1861. On that July afternoon, one James Butler Hickok...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Rosebud Battlefield State Park P.O. Box 1630 Miles City, MT 59301 Phone: (406) 232-0900 History On the morning of June 17, 1876, Brig. Gen. George Crook, his 1,050 soldiers and 260...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts The following story and picture is from the book, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars, by Gregory F. Michno. Site of Fort Dilts 2 September 1864, Marmarth, North Dakota: Capt. James L. Fisk was...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Pioneer Cabin 212 South Park Avenue Helena, MT 59601 Phone: (406) 422-4727 Email: [email protected] In the fall of 1864, a miner named Wilson Butts staked his claim along Last Chance...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Wyoming Pioneer Memorial Museum P.O. Box 911 Douglas, WY 82633 Phone: 307-358-9288 Fax: 307-358-9293 The purpose of the Wyoming Pioneer Memorial Museum is to collect, preserve, interpret and...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Pioneer Village 138 E US Highway 6 Minden, NE 68959 Phone: 308-832-2750 Toll-free: 800-445-4447 For thousands of years man lived quite simply. Then like a sleeping giant our world was awakened...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts The following is from the book, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars, by Gregory F. Michno. 26 July 1865, Casper, Wyoming: After their winter raids, the Cheyennes and Lakotas who had left Colorado and...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks P.O. Box 100 Pryor, MT 59066 Phone: 406-252-1289 Fax: 406-252-6668 Situated within the Crow Reservation in south central Montana, this park was...
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