America’s Historic Roads
Puzzle 30 · Overland Trails · Page 48 in print
Bozeman Trail
The 1868 Fort Laramie treaty required abandonment of the Bozeman Trail forts and closure of the road toward Montana.
Jump to a word
The words
Arapaho
People whose forces participated in the Bozeman Trail conflict.
Bighorn
River and mountain name on the route toward Montana.
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Cheyenne
People whose forces participated in resistance to the trail forts.
Fort Laramie
Post where the 1868 treaty was concluded; its Article XVI required abandonment of the Bozeman Trail forts.
Fort Reno
Army post at the southern end of the trail’s three-fort line.
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Hayfield Fight
The 1867 battle involving a hay-cutting detail.
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John Bozeman
Co-developer whose surname was given to the wagon trail.
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John Jacobs
Bozeman’s partner in widening the route.
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Lakota
People resisting intrusion into Powder River hunting lands.
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Powder River
River naming the hunting country at the center of the dispute.
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Raynolds
William Raynolds, leader of an earlier mapping expedition in the corridor.
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Red Cloud
Oglala Lakota leader associated with resistance to the trail forts.
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Virginia City
Montana goldfield town drawing Bozeman Trail traffic.
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Wagon Box Fight
The 1867 battle involving soldiers and a woodcutting party.
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Woodcutters
Workers gathering timber near the defended trail.
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Sources
- Bureau of Land Management, High Plains District Environmental Assessmenteplanning.blm.gov
- Bozeman Trail - Bighorn Canyon National Recreation AreaNational Park Service
- National Archives, 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie transcriptarchives.gov