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Red Cloud Stops Traffic and Foreshadows Frontier Wars
This second installment in The Saga of Fort Robinson by Vance B. Nelson traces how the Gold Rush opened the frontier, spurring clashes between Sioux and Cheyenne and white settlers. It covers Fort Laramie treaties, 1854 incidents, the Sand Creek Massacre, Red Cloud’s War, the Bozeman Trail, key battles like Wagon Box Fight, and the 1868 treaty sealing Red Cloud’s influence, ending with a Fort Robinson Museum display of Red Cloud and the Bozeman Trail map.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Robinson
Vance B. Nelson
Curthor
Fort Robinson Museum
California
Colorado
Smoky Hill
Fort Laramie
Red Cloud
Platte
Nebraska
Julesburg
Colo
Union Pacific
Ogallala
Nebr
H. M. Chivington
Chivington
Arapahoe
Fort Lyon
Big Horn
Canyon
Yellowstone Valley
Montana
Bozeman Pass
Bozeman
Virginia City
Bear Butte
Congress
Bozeman Trail
Henry B. Carrington
Fort
Reno
Phil Kearny
C. F