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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N9N_the-fort-kearny-sawmills_Banner-WY.html
Before you lies the frame of a LANE & BODLEY sawmill. This was one of two steam-driven sawmills brought west for Colonel Carrington's command. The sawmills were used to cut lumber into boards for construction of buildings, furniture and other item…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N9B_lodge-trail-ridge_Banner-WY.html
Lodge Trail Ridge divided the drainages of both Piney Creeks with the drainage of Peno (now Prairie Dog) Creek. Up this divide, north beyond Phil Kearny, climbed the Bozeman Trail on its route to Montana. There, December 21, 1866, in violation of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N99_a-monument-honoring-john-portugee-phillips_Banner-WY.html
One of history's great but little celebrated rides was made between midnight December 21st and Christmas night December 25th in the year 1866. From here at Fort Phil Kearny, where annihilation of Fetterman's force had left the garrison in desperat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N97_site-of-a-sawmill_Banner-WY.html
As explained in No. 1 of this series, wood was the life blood of Fort Kearny. The founding soldiers had carried into this wilderness a sawmill. It was set up without the walls of the stockade as here illustrated. And here, as supplied by logs carr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N96_pilot-hill_Banner-WY.html
Pilot Hill - overlooking Piney and Little Piney Creek Valleys, the Bozeman Road, the Sullivant Ridge with its wood roads was a constantly manned lookout. From this post the sentry signaled to the Fort news of events as they occurred - how the wood…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N95_cemetery-site_Banner-WY.html
Because of a healthy climate plus a short existence, Phil Kearny's cemetery might have remained an almost vacant place. But warfare prevented that idea. Here rested eighty-one victims of Fetterman's impetuosity; three heros of the masterful Wagon …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N93_the-bozeman-trail_Banner-WY.html
As shown above, so ran, through treaty guaranteed Indian Land, a white man's route of commerce. Like any road it was an environment and ecology disturbing intrusion. Which, in this case, made it a challenge bound to produce a redman's reaction - a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N8V_sullivant-ridge_Banner-WY.html
Fort Phil Kearny, built of wood and fueled by wood, required a never ending supply of wood. A supply obtained despite hostile activities by Sioux and Cheyenne. Source was the "Pinery" four miles west against the mountains. The route foll…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N8Q_touring-the-fort_Banner-WY.html
Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site is administered by the Wyoming State Parks and Historic Sites Department and supported by the Fort Phil Kearny/Bozeman Trail Association. All parties are committed to the preservation and interpretation of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N8L_the-magazine_Banner-WY.html
All military posts had a magazine for storing munitions. At Fort Phil Kearny the Magazine was 16 by 16 feet, with a 11 foot dirt covered ceiling and it was buried eight feet in the southwest quadrant of the parade ground. It is referred to in nume…