Pioneer recalls Fort Keogh trek and Sioux war end
The article recounts Col Brackett sending Second Cavalry from Wyoming to Montana in 1877, the Medicine Bow start, river crossings at Fetterman, Keogh and Kearny, skirmishes with Sioux and Cheyenne, a cherry-picking escapade, a mysterious rider on a hill, and the 1881 removal of captive Indians to Standing Rock aboard five steamboats, marking the war’s end.
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D. J. O'Malley
A. G. Brackett
Second
U. S. Cavalry
Fort Sanders
Wyo
War Department
Washington
Wyoming
Montana
Medicine Bow
Fort Fred Steele
Camp Stonebaugh
Fort Laramie
Fort Ellis
Medicine Row
Fetterman
Platte River
Platte
Wind River
Fort Keogh
Old Fort
Phil Kearny
Piney
Red Cloud
Kearny
C Troop
Will Aughey
Cherry Creek
Aughey
Will
Goose Creek
K Troop
Prairie Dog Creek
Fort Custer
Keogh
A. B. E and I
Second Cavalry
5Th
Custer
Prairie Dog
Charles
White
Clancy
Red Cross
R. G. Redd
Fifth Infantry
Tub Town
Ludsville
Col. N. A. Miles
Yellowstone
Tongue Rivers
Guardmount
John
Bader
Douglas
Thad Glover
Troop B Second Cavalry
Corp. Guernsy
Bennett
Co. B. Fifth Infantry
Philo Clark
B and I
Little Wolf
Custer Creek
A. E. and I
E. L. Huggins
Agan
Musselshell Top
U. S
Indiana
Standing Rock
Dakota
Missouri
Guido Ilges
John Brugier
Bruger
Ilges
Rodman
H Company Fifth Infantry
McHugh
Brugier
Fanny Bachelor
General Rucker
Katie P. Kouitz
Nellie Peck
Far West
E. P. Ewers
E Company
Celia
Sherman
Bill LaCross
Dewees
Peel
Huggins
Jearth
Miles