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Indian battle/massacre near Fort Phil Kearny, Dakota Territory (in present-day northern Wyoming) in 1866. A tribe of Oglala Sioux under Chief Red Cloud, provoked by the building of the Bozeman Trail through their hunting ground in southern Montana, massacred a U.S. army unit commanded by Captain W. J. Fetterman. Fetterman crossed over Lodge Trail Ridge in pursuit of the Indian attackers and he and his 80 men were killed.
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