Dull Knife Battlefield

Dull Knife Battlefield
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Kaycee, Wyoming
Coordinates	43°45′36″N 106°56′55″W / 43.76000°N 106.94861°W / 43.76000; -106.94861Coordinates: 43°45′36″N 106°56′55″W / 43.76000°N 106.94861°W / 43.76000; -106.94861
Built	1876
Governing body	Bureau of Land Management
NRHP Reference #	79002609[1]
Added to NRHP	August 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 a Cheyenne winter encampment, forcing the Cheyenne to surrender at agencies in the area in order to survive the winter. Five hundred ponies where captured and about 173 lodges destroyed. All the Indians where killed. 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]

References

External links

• Photographs of the Dull Knife Battlefield at the National Park Service's NRHP database
• Dull Knife Battlefield at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office

Photo Gallery

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  Dull Knife Battlefied looking east from Big Red Draw

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  Site of Dull Knife Village looking south from creek

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  Battlefied marker above Dull Knife Village

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  Ambush Draw where Lieutenant McKinney was shot

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  Hospital Hill where Lieutenant McKinney died

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  Breastworks built by Northern Cheyenne defenders above Big Red Draw

National Register of Historic Places in Johnson County, Wyoming National Historic Landmark Fort Phil Kearny Other historic districts Fort McKinney HF Bar Ranch Historic District Main Street Historic District TA Ranch Historic District Other properties AJX Bridge over South Fork and Powder River Cantonment Reno Carnegie Public Library Dull Knife Battlefield EDL Peloux Bridge EDZ Irigary Bridge Fort Reno Holland House Johnson County Courthouse Lake Desmet Segment, Bozeman Trail Methodist Episcopal Church Powder River Station-Powder River Crossing (48JO134 and 48JO801) St. Luke's Episcopal Church Sussex Post Office and Store Trabing Station-Crazy Woman Crossing Union Congregational Church and Parsonage US Post Office-Buffalo Main See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Johnson County, Wyoming and List of National Historic Landmarks in Wyoming