USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The overland Bozeman Trail followed many north-south trails the American Natives had used since prehistoric times to travel through Powder River Country.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Bozeman Trail Though the trail is named for John Bozeman, an emigrant from Georgia, who was said to have blazed the route, in actuality Native Americans had been using the route as a travel corridor for centuries. In 1863, Bozeman and partner John Jacobs widened this corridor for use as a wagon road.

Detailed explanation-3: -Red Cloud’s War (also referred to as the Bozeman War or the Powder River War) was an armed conflict between an alliance of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Northern Arapaho peoples against the United States and the Crow Nation that took place in the Wyoming and Montana territories from 1866 to 1868.

Detailed explanation-4: -On Nov. 6, 1868, Red Cloud signed a treaty with the U.S. government that guaranteed the closure of the forts. After the Army departed, the Indians burned the forts, and the Bozeman Trail was officially closed.

Detailed explanation-5: -Leading this coalition is the great Lakota Chief Red Cloud. In July 1863 Bozeman and Jacobs guide their first wagon train on the newly marked trail. They travel just 150 miles when they are confronted by a large party of Northern Cheyenne and Sioux warriors, who warn them to turn back or be killed.