The Wagon Box Fight

This authoritative chronicle by a leading Frontier Wars historian details one of the most dramatic battles of the 19th century American West. In the 1860s, the newly blazed Bozeman Trail brought American pioneers into the gold-rich regions of Montana. As these settlers disrupted Native American populations, the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Northern Arapaho tribes responded with a series of raids in Montana and Wyoming Territories. The bloody conflict came to be known as Red Cloud’s War, named