Send us a text

In 1854, violence broke out in what today is a corn field in Eastern Wyoming. A dead cow, a new West Point Lieutenant, a drunken translator, and an entire village of Lakota Sioux came together in the greatest defeat of US Soldiers to a native force west of the Mississippi to that date. Today we visit the site of the battle and learn about the odd and unusual elements that kicked off years of violence in this part of the American West.

Left or Right, Jaeger Held & CJ Young in front of Fort Laramie's Officers' Quarters "Old Bedlam." Photo Courtesy of CJ Young.

Support the show