Red Cloud's War

Red Cloud's War ended with victory for the Lakota Sioux.

The Wagon Box Fight was the last major engagement of Red Cloud's War.

Thus Red Cloud's War began.

Native American anger at settler intrusion into the hunting grounds lead to Red Cloud's War.

The treaty ended Red Cloud's War.

Red Cloud's War closed the Bozeman Trail in 1868, but the town's fertile land attracted permanent settlers.

In Red Cloud's War the Indians repeatedly attacked the soldiers and civilians traversing the trail.

During the late 1860s, the area was the scene of Red Cloud's War, fought between the Lakota peoples and the United States.

The fort, known to the Indians as the "hated post on the Little Piney", played an important role in Red Cloud's War.

Although a great warrior in his youth, and having taken part in the Grattan massacre, he declined to participate in Red Cloud's War.

The next year the fighting escalated into Red Cloud's War which was the first major military conflict between the United States and the Wyoming Indian tribes.

In the late 1860s, the fort was the primary staging ground for the United States in the Powder River Country during Red Cloud's War.

Carrington established Fort Phil Kearny on July 14, initiating a military struggle known as Red Cloud's War.

Chief Blue Horse, Chief Big Mouth and other Wagluhe acted as intermediaries throughout Red Cloud's War.

July 29 - Fort Smith evacuated, beginning the closure of the Bozeman Trail to white settlers as a result of Red Cloud's War.

Crook left Fort Fetterman on the abandoned Bozeman Trail past the scene of many battles during Red Cloud's War ten years earlier.

Red Cloud's War was led by the Lakota chief Red Cloud against the military who were erecting forts along the Bozeman trail.

Assigned to protect the Bozeman Trail, he built and personally manned the remote Fort Phil Kearny during Red Cloud's War.

The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie ended Red Cloud's War and essentially ceded much of their old hunting grounds to the Lakota.

Crazy Woman Crossing is significant as the site of the Battle of Crazy Woman, a skirmish during the Red Cloud's War in 1866.

The Powder River Expedition (1865) and Red Cloud's War (1866) were military actions intended to protect travelers on the Bozeman Trail from Indian attacks.

Blue Horse maintained the trust of General Harney and Chief Red Cloud, and served as a messenger and intermediary during Red Cloud's War 1866-1868.

The route was an important alternative to the Bozeman Trail, which had crossed the Powder River Country, but had been closed to white settlers following Red Cloud's War.

Red Cloud's War was the name the US Army gave to a series of conflicts fought with American Indian Plains tribes in the Wyoming and Montana territories.

A second Fort C. F. Smith was located in the Powder River Country in the Montana Territory during Red Cloud's War.