In July of 1864, 7- or 8-year-old Mary Hurley Kelly, who was traveling across present-day Wyoming with her aunt and uncle as a part of the Kelly-Larimer Train, was left
Fort Kearny event to highlight the Civil War-era service of the Pawnee Scouts, valuable allies who were forced from their homeland in Nebraska. The Pawnee Scouts provided protection as America expanded west. Then they were forced from their homeland.