The entry from my book: "A Miniconjou Sioux named High Forehead killed a sickly cow near Fort Laramie in southeastern Wyoming. The cow’s owner complained to the fort’s commander. Brevet Second Lieutenant John L. Grattan and thirty volunteers left the fort to find the Sioux involved. Grattan brashly went to Conquering Bear’s Brule Sioux camp near Ash Hollow and demanded the Indian who shot the cow. Grattan made numerous threats to the Sioux, but they would not hand over High Forehead. During the parley, a shot rang out, and Grattan’s artillery gunners opened fire on the camp. Conquering Bear tried to get both sides to stop shooting, but he was hit by an artillery round. Eventually, all but one of Grattan’s men were killed in the fighting."
This is the entry from my book for February 9, 1874: "Lieutenant L. H. Robinson, Fourteenth Infantry, and Corporal James Coleman were among several people 'wantonly murdered' by Indians on Cottonwood Creek, near Laramie Peak, Wyoming. Robinson and Coleman were leading a wagon train of lumber returning from a sawmill when they were attacked. Army reports cited this attack as a signal for the start of numerous battles in the area."
The entry in my book for May 6, 1877: "Crazy Horse and Dull Knife, plus as many as 1,000 of their followers, surrendered at the Red Cloud Agency near Fort Robinson in northwestern Nebraska."
I checked with the historians at the fort. Even though the have used ground-based radar/sonar, they have not been able to find the mass grave.
The entry from my book: "At Fort Robinson in northwestern Nebraska, the Cheyenne were being held in the barracks without food or wood because they would not return to their reservation. After five days, Captain Henry Wessells ordered Cheyenne chiefs to his quarters for a conference. Dull Knife did not go, but Left Hand, Crow, and Wild Hog attended. Wild Hog told the captain that the Cheyenne would never go to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma); they would rather die here. Captain Wessells ordered him put in irons and a fight ensues, with a soldier being stabbed. Left Hand, in manacles, made it outside and yelled aloud what was happening. Captain Wessells offered to let the women and children out of the barracks, but they said they would rather die at the fort than to be forced to go south. That evening, Cheyenne warriors recover some hidden rifles, and just before 10 P.M. they opened fire on the soldier guards from their prison barracks. An army report called the barracks "like a den of rattlesnakes, into which it is certain death for any white man to go." While the shooting continued, the Cheyenne escaped from the fort. The soldiers pursued them, and a gunfight developed nearby. Only thirty-eight Cheyenne were not killed, wounded, or captured during this fight (Dull Knife’s daughter was one of the killed). Most of these thirty-eight were killed or captured in the next few days. During the initial day of fighting, five soldiers were reported killed, and seven were wounded."
Page 2003: Spokane, Washington to Grangeville, Idaho
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Page 2003c: Lolo, Montana to Salmon, Idaho
Page 2003d: Salmon, Idaho to Gilmore Summit, Idaho
Page 2003e: Kilgore, Idaho to Yellowstone National Park
Page 2003f: More Yellowstone
Page 2003g: Grand Tetons to Lander, Wyoming
Page 2003h: Wind River Canyon to Legend Rock, Wyoming
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
Page 2003m: Fetterman Battlfield to Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming
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
Page 2003s: Rapid City to Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Page 2003t: Eagle Butte Powwow to the Blessing Ceremony
Page 2003u: Sakakawea Monument to Fort Buford
Page 2003v: Fort Union to Old Fort Peck
Page 2003w: Cree Crossing to Fort Assiniboine
Page 2003x: Glacier Park
Page 2003y: Glacier #2 to Missoula, Montana
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