The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About
The core insight was that the forts’ value to the United States was instrumental — they were built to protect civilian use of the Bozeman Trail, which was built to serve the Montana goldfields.
If the trail was unusable, the forts had no purpose.
And making the trail unusable did not require defeating the forts militarily; it required making the trail dangerous enough that civilian traffic stopped.
The consistent targeting of civilian emigrants and supply trains — while also keeping military patrols and work parties under pressure — attacked both elements of the trail’s value simultaneously.
The civilians who stopped using the trail were exactly the people whose use justified the forts’ existence.
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