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Hay Corral Battle Near Fort C F Smith Highlighted
Narrative recounts the 1867 Hay Corral fight on the Big Horn near Fort C F Smith in Montana where about 2 000 Sioux Cheyenne and Arapaho attacked a small party and civilians holding a barricade killing and wounding many while suffering few losses. The piece notes no official military report exists and cites F G Burnett's eyewitness account in The Bozeman Trail published 1922.
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Hay Corral
Big Horn River
Montana
C. F. Smith
Bozeman Trail
Big Horn Canyon
Hardin
Fort C. F. Smith
F. G. Burnett
Grace Raymond Hebard
E. A. Brininstool
Arthur H. Clark Co
Cleveland
Wagon Box Corral
Fort Phil Kearney
Fort Smith
Wagon Box
Henry B. Carrington
18Th
United States Infantry
A.C. Leighton
Forts
Phil Kearney
Reno
Leighton
Hay Field
Big Horn
Platte
Fort
Fort Reno
Colvin
Savage
Corral
Warrior Creek
Zeke
F. Smith
Hay
Greene
Colgin
A. C. Leighton
Leutenants