Grattan Fight Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/15/2007
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is located near a little known and visited monument on Wyoming Highway 157. Please bring your own writing utensil. Cache contains a geocoin and military hat pins to trade.

“The Grattan fight (known as the Grattan massacre) of August 17, 1854 occurred near this location, when twenty-nine U.S. soldiers were killed by Brulé Lakota (Sioux). It was an early and significant event in the plains Indian Wars.
In the late summer of 1854, about 4,000 Brulé and Oglala were camped near Fort Laramie in accordance with the terms of an earlier peace treaty. On August 17, a cow belonging to a Mormon traveling on the nearby Oregon Trail wandered into the Lakota camp and was killed after doing a lot of damage in the camp.
Second lieutenant John L. Grattan, of the U.S. 6th Infantry Regiment, a recent graduate of West Point, was ordered to bring in the guilty Lakota cow killer. Grattan was an inexperienced, short-tempered young man openly contemptuous of the Lakota's ability as warriors and who was looking to prove himself. A commander at Laramie later recalled, "There is no doubt that Lt. Grattan left this post with a desire to have a fight with the Indians, and that he had determined to take the man at all hazards."
In front of the Brulé chief Conquering Bear, Grattan insisted on taking the guilty party into custody. Conquering Bear understood the nature of the situation and tried to negotiate, but Grattan continued to escalate tensions. When Conquering Bear stood up, he was shot in the back and killed by a soldier. This started a volley of fire from both sides; Grattan and all of his men were killed. This event was called the "Grattan Massacre" by the U.S. press as part of a campaign to stir up anti-Indian sentiment.
News of the fight reached the War Department and plans were put in to motion for retaliation. William S. Harney was recalled from Paris and sent to Fort Kearny, where he was put in command of elements of his own 2nd Mounted Dragoons. They set out on August 24, 1855 to find and exact retribution on the Sioux.
This then led to the Battle of Ash Hollow (also known as the Battle of Bluewater Creek) on September 3, 1855, in which U.S. soldiers killed a number of Brulé Sioux in present-day Garden County, Nebraska.”
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