Fort Phil Kearny was an outpost of the U.S. Army along the Bozeman Trail near present day Story, Wyoming Construction began in the summer of 1866 under the direction of the regimental commander Colonel Henry B. Carrington. It was one of the forts that were constructed along the Bozeman Trail to prot
In researching history, it is often difficult to ferret out the real story. As time goes by, stories are told and repeated as fact, and the facts are often lost in the mists of time. So it is with the famous ride of John, “Portugee” Phillips from Fort Phil Kearny to Fort Laramie after the Fetterman
Historian Bob Wilson with the Kearny Frontier Regulars
The Fetterman Fight, also called the Battle of a Hundred Slain by the Sioux, was fought on Dec. 21, 1866. On Dec. 21, 2021, Fort Phil Kearny and the Bozeman Trail Association hosted the annual tour of the battlefield with historian Bob Wilson
The Indian Education for All Act was passed in 2017 and the state gave school districts three years to implement changes to the curriculum. Taylar Stagner with Wyoming Public Radio reports on how different school districts are learning about treaty rights.
The Fetterman Monument
The Fetterman Fight was one of the bloodiest battles waged between the Native American's and the US Army in Wyoming. It happened 155 years ago on Dec. 21, and it happened near Story.
Red Cloud's War was a conflict between an alliance of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, the