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Dull Knife Battlefield

Coordinates: 43°45′36″N 106°56′55″W / 43.76000°N 106.94861°W / 43.76000; -106.94861
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Dull Knife Battlefield
Dull Knife Battlefield is located in Wyoming
Dull Knife Battlefield
Dull Knife Battlefield is located in the United States
Dull Knife Battlefield
Nearest cityKaycee, Wyoming
Coordinates43°45′36″N 106°56′55″W / 43.76000°N 106.94861°W / 43.76000; -106.94861
Built1876
NRHP reference No.79002609[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 15, 1979

The Dull Knife Battlefield is located on the eastern slope of the Bighorn Mountains in Johnson County, Wyoming near Kaycee. It was the scene of the Dull Knife Fight on November 25, 1876, in which the Fourth Cavalry under General Ranald S. Mackenzie raided the winter encampment of the NorthernCheyenne, destroying most of their material culture and all their winter supplies and thus forcing the Northern Cheyenne to seek shelter with the village of Crazy Horse in order to survive the winter. Five hundred ponies were captured and about 173 lodges destroyed. The Dull Knife battlefield is on private land and is available to visit only by special arrangement. The fight took place on November 25, 1876.

The battlefield site was considered by the Cheyenne to be sufficiently remote to be safe as winter quarters. The location is now the site of a ranch.[2] The site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Junge, Mark (July 6, 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Dull Knife Battlefield". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
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