The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About
The specific sites of the conflict are marked and accessible.
Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site in Wyoming preserves the location of the fort’s stockade and the surrounding area, with a museum and interpretive exhibits.
The Fetterman Fight site — now called the Fetterman Battle Site — is marked and accessible, with a monument to the soldiers who died there.
The Wagon Box Fight site is similarly marked.
The National Park Service maintains interpretive materials about the Bozeman Trail conflict, and the language of those materials has changed significantly over the decades in response to changing scholarly understanding and increased sensitivity to Indigenous perspectives.
The NPS now describes Red Cloud as the leader recognized for winning a war against the United States — language that would have been unlikely in the materials of forty years ago.