How are you going? If you’re taking I-25 north through Sheridan, a good stop would be at the Ft Phil Kearney site. It’s close to Story, WY and just off (west) of the highway. The scenes of the Fetterman and Wagon Box fights are there, the Fetterman battlefield being in view of the Interstate. Parts of the fort have been replicated, and they have a nice little visitor’s center and bookstore.
***The scenes of the Fetterman and Wagon Box fights are there,***
What the Indians did to the corpses of the cavalry men was so horrible that the government refused to release a detailed discription of what they found there for 25 years.
One good thing, it showed that the two civilian scouts with repeating Henry rifles took a large toll on the indians before the scouts ran out of ammo and were killed.