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PERSONAL REMINISCES OF FORT PHIL KEARNEY AND THE WAGON BOX FIGHT R.J SMYTH

PERSONAL REMINISCES OF FORT PHIL KEARNEY AND THE WAGON BOX FIGHT R.J SMYTH

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When C.T . Brady wrote the first edition of 'Indian Fights & Fighters' he put out a request for additional material from those people who had personal experience pertaining to any of the stories he placed in that book. This incredible account came to Brady from a teamster named R.J. Smyth who came up the trail with the cavalry when they built Fort Kearney (where the Fetterman Massacre took place) and was also involved in the infamous Wagon Box Fight. For the two years of its existence Fort Phil Kearney was never without warring Indians near.

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