The American Indian Wars

Wyoming

34 documented engagements fought in Wyoming between 1854 and 1879, drawn from the U.S. Army's own registers.

Frederic Remington, The Battle of Beecher's Island. Public domain.

Engagements

1854 to 1879

Years

By decade

The engagements fought in Wyoming, by decade.

1850s

1860s

1870s

Where these engagements were fought

23 of the 40 could be placed to a location and appear on the map; the remaining 17 are recorded without a precise point. Select a marker to see the engagement.

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Red markers are surveyed battlefields with a mapped boundary; navy markers are point-located engagements. Select a marker to open its page.

Notable engagements

Engagement	Year	Outcome	Forces or losses
Dull Knife Fight	1876	United States victory	40 killed; Unknown wounded vs 7 killed; 26 wounded
Battle of the Hundred-in-the-Hands	1866
Grattan massacre	1854		2 killed vs 31 killed
Fort Fetterman	1868		1 killed
Rock Creek	1868		1 Indian killed
Fort Reno	1868		1 killed; 1 wounded
Point of Rocks	1869		1 civilian killed
Horseshoe	1869		3 wounded
Laramie Peak	1869		1 killed; 1 wounded
Between Forts Fetterman & Laramie	1869		2 killed
Whiskey Gap	1869		1 killed
La Bonte Creek	1869		2 killed

Plus 22 further documented engagements in the Wyoming record.

By war

Great Sioux War of 1876

The 1876-1877 war on the northern Plains, from the Rosebud and the Little Bighorn to Slim Buttes, Dull Knife and the surrender of the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne.

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Engagements and locations are compiled from published sources: U.S. Adjutant-General's Office, Chronological List of Actions with Indians (1891) (public domain (U.S. federal record)); Sheridan, Record of Engagements with Hostile Indians (1882) (public domain); Wikidata (structured data, CC0); Wikipedia (text rewritten and cited as a reference, CC BY-SA 4.0).