The entry from my book for December 21, 1866: "Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Yellow Eagle, High Back Bone, and their followers had been harassing Colonel Henry Carrington’s Second Cavalry and Twenty-Seventh Infantry troops from Fort Phil Kearny in northern Wyoming. They staged several raids and ambushes along the road from the fort to the nearby woods. Captain William J. Fetterman had once said, "A company of regulars could whip a thousand, and a regiment could whip the whole array of hostile tribes." A convoy of wagons carrying wood left the fort. It was attacked by a decoy group of Indians. Following up on his claim that he "could ride through the Sioux Nation" with just eighty men, Fetterman pursued the decoying Indians away from the fort. The Indians’ trap was sprung. Fetterman’s entire force of three officers, forty-seven infantry, twenty-seven cavalry, and two civilians were killed in the fighting. The soldiers called this the 'Fetterman Massacre.' The Indians called it the 'Battle of the Hundred Killed."
This a detailed look at the original marker at the "Fetterman Massacre" park. It is now called the Fetterman Battlefield. The new interpretive signs now also offer an excellent look at the battle from the Indians' point of view. The last line on the original monument says, "There Were No Survivors." The new signs says that, of course, most of the Indians survived.
Someone placed metal outlines on the slopes southwest of the battlefield. It gave you an interesting perspective on what things might have looked like.
Page 2003: Spokane, Washington to Grangeville, Idaho
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Page 2003i: Medicine Lodge State Archaeological Site to Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite, Wyoming
Page 2003j: Shell Creek Falls to Wagon Box Battlefield, Wyoming
Page 2003k: Rosebud Battlefield to Little Bighorn Battlefield, Montana
Page 2003l: Little Bighorn Battlefield to Crow Agency, Montana
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Page 2003n: Crazy Woman Creek to Fort Fetterman, Wyoming
Page 2003o: Oregon Trail to Fort Laramie, Wyoming
Page 2003p: Grattan Battlefield, Wyoming to Fort Robinson, Nebraska
Page 2003q: Hudson-Meng Bison Bonebed, Nebraska to Crazy Horse Monument, South Dakota
Page 2003r: Devil's Tower, Wyoming
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Page 2003u: Sakakawea Monument to Fort Buford
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