Bozeman Trail devotees have taken the first official ... prior to the Battle of the Little Bighorn. As a result, the military abandoned its three forts and the trail in 1868.

“By August 1868 the army had abandoned all three Bozeman Trail forts and left the Indians to believe they had driven the soldiers from their territory,” Doyle wrote. “The trail was not used ...

In March 1868, Gen. U. S. Grant gave orders to abandon the forts. On November 7, 1868, Red Cloud finally signed a treaty. He never fought the whites again, but he had closed the Bozeman Trail.

One of three forts built along the Bozeman Trail by the U.S. Army to protect travelers from attacks by Plains Indians, Fort Phil Kearny Historic Site gives visitors a feeling of what it was like ...