Bozeman Trail II Traditional Cache
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This cache is located in a small roadside pullout in a historically
significant area. There is a very informative sign that describes
the site and a marker from 1914. This is an easy to find cache
right out in the open. There is no need to leave the pavement and
it is handicap accessible. The area is also truck & RV
friendly. It is a micro container that fits snuggly into its hiding
place. This is a log only cache. You might need tweezers to get the
log out of the cache container.
The Bozeman Trail was an overland route connecting the gold rush
territory of Montana to the Oregon Trail. Its most important period
was from 1863-1868. The flow of white pioneers and settlers through
territory of American Indians provoked their resentment and
attacks. The U.S. Army undertook several military campaigns against
the Indians to try to control the trail. Because of its association
with US frontier history and conflict with American Indians, the
trail is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
In 1866, with the ending of the American Civil War, many more
settlers traveled up the trail, mostly in search of gold. The U.S
Army called a council at Fort Laramie with the Indians, which
Lakota leader Red Cloud attended. The Army wanted to negotiate a
right-of-way with the Lakota for settlers' use of the trail. As
negotiations continued, Red Cloud was outraged when he discovered
that a regiment of U.S. infantry was already using the route
without permission from the Lakota nation. Red Cloud's War began.
The Army established Fort Reno, Fort Phil Kearny and Fort C. F.
Smith along the route, staffed with forces to protect travelers,
but Indian raids on parties along the trail and around the forts
continued. When the Lakota annihilated a detachment under William
J. Fetterman at the Fetterman Fight the same year near Fort Phil
Kearny, civilian travel along the trail ceased. On August 1, 1867
and August 2, 1867, US forces resisted coordinated attempts by
large parties of Lakota to overrun Fort C. F. Smith and Fort Phil
Kearny. In the Hayfield Fight and Wagon Box Fight, Indian attacks
on outlying parties failed. Later, by the 1868 Treaty of Fort
Laramie, the US recognized the Powder River Country as unceded
hunting territory for the Lakota and allied tribes. Most was
located on the Crow Indian Reservation. For a time the government
used the treaty to shut down travel by European-American settlers
on the Bozeman Trail. President Ulysses S. Grant ordered the
abandonment of forts along the trail. Red Cloud's War could thus be
said to be the only Indian war in which Native Americans achieved
their goals (if only for a brief time) with a treaty settlement
essentially on their terms. By 1876, however, following the Black
Hills War, the US Army reopened the trail. The Army continued to
use the trail during later military campaigns and built a telegraph
line along it. Congratulations to High-Plains-Drifter on
FTF!!!!
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(Decrypt)
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