Indian tipis on the grounds of Fort Phil Kearny, in what is now Johnson County, Wyoming
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The fort, along the Bozeman emigrant trail through the northern Rocky Mountains, was an outpost of the U.S. Army in the late 1860s. Named for Union Maj. Gen. Philip Kearny, a popular figure in the American Civil War, the Wyoming fort and the nearby Fetterman and Wagon Box battle sites are maintained as the Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site. Along with Fort Reno and Fort C.F. Smith, the fort was established Powder River Country at the height of the Indian Wars, to protect prospective miners traveling the trail north from the Oregon Trail to present-day Montana.
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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