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This book can be found in the High Density Rolling Shelves - SEE ' KEENAN' @ THE Wyoming Room – Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library – 335 West Alger – Sheridan WY 82801 (307-674-8585 x 7) Index to The Wagon Box Fight Index to THE WAGON BOX FIGHT By Jerry Keenan 1988, Fort Phil Kearny/Bozeman Trail Association Indexed 2007 Allin, Erskine S. -- 2 Garrett, John -- 5, 6, 7 Gatchell, T. J. -- 16 Battle of the Little Big Horn -- 15, 17 Gibson, Sam -- 5-10, 12, 14-18, Cover Benham, H. C. -- 15 Grady, John -- 10, 11 Bezold, Charles E. -- 15 Big Piney Creek -- 3, 6, 8, 9, 18 Haggerty, Henry -- 10 Bozeman Trail -- 1, 4 Hayfield Fight -- 4 Buffalo, Wyoming -- 16 Hebard, Grace Raymond -- 15, Cover High Hump -- 4 Camp, W. M, -- 15, 16 Hoover, John -- 16 Carrington, Henry B. -- 4 Horton, Samuel P. (Dr.) -- 13, 14 Casualties -- 14 Hundred In the Hands Battle -- 1 Cheyenne Indians -- 4, 10, 16, 18 Civil War -- 2, 4, 5, 9, 17 Indians -- 1, 2, 5-14, 16, 18 Civilian Conservation Corps -- 16 Claus, Frederick -- 17 Jenness, John C. -- 4-5, 7, 8, 10 Connolly, ? (Lieutenant) -- 11, 13 Jipala -- 11 Crazy Horse -- 4 Johnson County -- 14 Jones, ? -- 6 Dandy, George B. -- 3 Deming, Nolan -- 5, 6, 7 Keenan, Jerry -- Cover Doyle, Thomas -- 10 Little Piney Creek -- 5-8, 18 Eighteenth Infantry -- 4 Little Piney Creek Canyon -- 3 Littman, Max -- 7, 9, 11, 14-16, 18 Fetterman Fight -- 1, 4, 7, 8, 15 Fetterman Monument -- 15 Massacre Hill -- 1 Fire Thunder -- 14 McCarthy ? (Lieutenant) -- 11 Flying By -- 18 Medicine Bear -- 16 Fort C. F. Smith -- 4 Miniconjou Sioux -- 4, 11 Fort Laramie -- 1 Minnick, J. I. -- 6, 7, 13 Fort Phil Kearny – 1- 5, 11, 13, 14, 16, Mountain Howitzer -- 11, 13 18 1 This book can be found in the High Density Rolling Shelves - SEE ' KEENAN' @ THE Wyoming Room – Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library – 335 West Alger – Sheridan WY 82801 (307-674-8585 x 7) Index to The Wagon Box Fight National Armory -- 2 Sheridan County -- 14 North Piney Creek -- 3 Sheridan, Wyoming -- 15, 16 Sioux -- 1, 4, 10, 18 Oglala Sioux -- 4, 14 Smith, Benjamin -- 2, 11, 13, 14 Smith, John Eugene -- 2, 11 Paulus, ? (Lieutenant) -- 11 Smyth, R. J. -- 5, 8 Peach, Frank -- 16 Snipers -- 9, 10 Pineries -- 3, 5, 11, 18 South Fork Canyon -- 3 Piney Island -- 2-3, 17 South Piney Creek -- 3, 18 Pitman, Theodore -- Cover Story, Wyoming -- 14, 17 Porter, J. R. -- 1-2, 3 Sun Dance -- 4 Powder River -- 1 Powell, James -- 3, 4, 5, 7-11, 13, 14, 18, Teepee Book -- 15 19 Thunderhawk -- 4 Proctor & Gilmore -- 2 Tompson, H.H. -- 15 Twenty-Seventh Infantry -- 3, 4, 11 Red Cloud -- 1, 8, 11, 18 Relief Column -- 11, 12-13 University of Wyoming -- 15, Cover Rosebud River -- 4 Wagon Box Monument -- 15-16 Sans Arc Sioux -- 4 World War One -- 15 Sheridan Chamber of Commerce -- 16 Wyoming Historical Landmark Sheridan Commercial Club -- 15 Commission -- 15 2 .

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Price of Freedom: Stories of Sacrifice How the Civil War Became the Indian Wars New York Times Article By Boyd Cothran and Ari Kelman May 25, 2015 On Dec. 21, 1866, a year and a half after Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ostensibly closed the book on the Civil War’s final chapter at Appomattox Court House, another soldier, Capt. William Fetterman, led cavalrymen from Fort Phil Kearny, a federal outpost in Wyoming, toward the base of the Big Horn range. The men planned to attack Indians who had reportedly been menacing local settlers. Instead, a group of Arapahos, Cheyennes and Lakotas, including a warrior named Crazy Horse, killed Fetterman and 80 of his men. It was the Army’s worst defeat on the Plains to date. The Civil War was over, but the Indian wars were just beginning. These two conflicts, long segregated in history and memory, were in fact intertwined. They both grew out of the process of establishing an American empire in the West. In 1860, competing visions of expansion transformed the presidential election into a referendum. Members of the Republican Party hearkened back to Jefferson’s dream of an “empire for liberty.” The United States, they said, should move west, leaving slavery behind. This free soil platform stood opposite the splintered Democrats’ insistence that slavery, unfettered by federal regulations, should be allowed to root itself in new soil. After Abraham Lincoln’s narrow victory, Southern states seceded, taking their congressional delegations with them. Never ones to let a serious crisis go to waste, leading Republicans seized the ensuing constitutional crisis as an opportunity to remake the nation’s political economy and geography.
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