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103 North Piney, Story, Wyoming 82842 ∙ Telephone: (307) 683-3074
Cell: (307) 461-0756 ∙ Cell: (307) 351-2367 ∙ e-mail: wagonbox@fiberpipe.net

 
Story, Wyoming and the surrounding region is characterized by many historic attractions.  Many of the local historical sites were significant in the early days of the American west, including several sites where Indian battles took place.  Below are some of the historical attractions you will find in the area.

Fort Phil Kearny
 Fort Phil Kearny, named for a popular Union General, was established by Colonel Henry B. Carrington of the 18th U.S. Infantry in July, 1866, near present-day Story, in Northeastern Wyoming.

The largest of three forts, including Fort Reno near Kaycee, Wyoming, and Fort C. F. Smith near Hardin, Montana, it was one of the three posts established to protect emigrants traveling the Bozeman Trail north to the gold fields of Montana, and also to prevent intertribal warfare between Native American tribes. It later proved useful to draw attention of Indian forces away from the trans-continental railroad construction corridor to the south.

The Fetterman Fight Monument
 Today an impressive stone monument and memorial plaque marks the site of this tragic battle, one of the few in American military history in which an entire command was wiped out.  A walking path has also been developed in recent years along the ridge, with over 30 signs interpreting the battle from both the military and Indian points of view.
On December 21, 1866,  Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors  staged an ambush some three miles from Fort Phil Kearny. Ordered to rescue a besieged wood-wagon train, Captain William J. Fetterman and 80 men were decoyed over Lodge Trail Ridge by a small number of Indians led by the young Lakota Sioux warrior,  Crazy Horse, into a trap where over 1000 warriors waited in hiding. Fetterman's pursuit over the ridge, in violation of Carrington's orders, led to the death of the entire command.

Wagon Box Fight Historic Site
A remarkable battle in the early days in Wyoming.  One of the most unusual battles in the history of the west was fought August 2, 1867 about five miles west of Fort Phil Kearny.  Here an estimated 1,000 Indians under Chief Red Cloud, attacked a handful of soldiers and civilians and suffered a defeat.

In the summer of 1867, Indian forces, attempting to repeat the Fetterman victory, attacked woodcutters and soldiers camped about five miles from the Fort.  During initial stages of the battle, twenty-six soldiers and six civilians took cover inside an oval of wagon boxes used as a stock corral.  Armed with new rapid-fire breech loading rifles the soldiers and civilians, commanded by Captain James Powell, held off the massed warriors until a relief force arrived from the fort.  Three men were killed and two wounded inside of the corral, while Indian casualties were estimated at from five to sixty or more killed and five to one-hundred-and-twenty more wounded.

Hole-in-the-Wall Country
The infamous "Hole in the Wall", the hideout of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid along with the rest of the "Wild Bunch" is about  a 1½-hour drive south from Story, Wyoming.
Little Big Horn Battlefield
The Little Big Horn Battlefield, where General George Armstrong Custer was defeated and killed, is less that a 1½-hour drive north from Story, Wyoming.

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THE WAGON BOX INN
103 North Piney, Story, Wyoming 82842
Telephone: (307) 683-3074 ∙ Cell: (307) 461-0756 ∙ Cell: (307) 351-2367
e-mail: wagonbox@fiberpipe.net