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Wagon Box Fight Monument

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Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
Wagon Box Fight Monument
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Story, WY 82832, USA

The Wagon Box Fight was an engagement on August 2, 1867, in the vicinity of Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming, during Red Cloud's War. A party of 26 US Army soldiers and 6 civilians were attacked by several hundred Lakota Sioux warriors. Although outnumbered, the soldiers were armed with newly supplied breech-loading Springfield Model 1866 rifles and Lever Action Henry rifles, and had a defensive wall of wagon boxes to protect them. They held off the attackers for hours with few casualties, although they lost a large number of horses and mules driven off by the raiders. This was the last major engagement of the war, although Lakota and allied forces continued to raid European-American parties along the Bozeman Trail. The area has been designated as a Wyoming State Historic Site and is marked by a memorial and an historic plaque.
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