SHERIDAN — The Sheridan Community Land Trust's Explore History program for March at the Tongue River Valley Community Center ...

The Bozeman Trail was an offshoot of the Oregon Trail, a shortcut to the newly discovered gold fields of Montana Territory. Cutting through the heart of Indian country. It became a flash point for ...

platted Bozeman in 1864 after he and John Jacob opened the Bozeman Trail in 1863. "Standing right [at] the gate of the mountains ready to swallow up all [the] tenderfeet that would reach the ...

They also constructed a series of forts to protect the road, which became known as the Bozeman Trail. Starting in 1865, Red Cloud led the Oglala and the Cheyenne in a war against white soldiers ...