The Wagon Box Fight was an engagement which occurred on August 2, 1867, in the vicinity of Fort Phil Kearny during Red Cloud's War. A party of twenty-six U.S. Army soldiers and six 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.
^Keenan, Jerry (1990). The Wagon Box Fight. Boulder, Colorado: Lightning Tree Press. p. 22. ISBN 1882810872.
^Hyde, George E. (1937). Red Cloud's Folk. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 159. ISBN 0806115203.
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