The Wagon Box Fight

CHARLES D SCHREIBEIS

Publication: Old Travois Trails, 1942, Banner, Wyoming

First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Pages [5]-19. Drawing of Fort Philip Kearny. Appears in Old Travois Trails, Volume III, Number 1, May-June, 1942. A well-written account of The Wagon Box Fight in Wyoming in 1867. "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." A fine copy.

Inventory Number: 51222