Editing Story, Wyoming (section)

==History of the region==

The region around Story was part of the history of the [[American frontier|American Frontier and the Old West]], and of the conflicts between early settlers and the [[Plains Indians]]. The historic [[Bozeman Trail]] passed nearby in the mid-1860s, and [[Fort Phil Kearny]], now a State Historic Site, lies just 5 miles south of town. [[Fort Sheridan (Wyoming)|Fort Sheridan]] was just to the north, near what is now the city of [[Sheridan, Wyoming|Sheridan]].

Fort Phil Kearny, known to the Plains Indians as the "hated post on the Little Piney", played an important role in [[Red Cloud's War]] (1866-1868), and the area around the fort was the site of the [[Fetterman massacre]] and the [[Wagon Box Fight]].<ref>Keenan, Jerry - ''The Wagon Box Fight: An Episode of Red Cloud's War'', Savas Publishing, 2000. {{ISBN|1-882810-87-2}}</ref>  The [[Fetterman Fight]] (with 81 men killed on the U.S. side) was the worst military defeat suffered by the U.S. Army on the [[Great Plains]], until the [[Battle of the Little Bighorn]] ten years later.<ref name=bury>{{cite book|author=Brown, Dee|title=Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, ch. 6|publisher=Bantam Books|year=1970|isbn=0-553-11979-6|authorlink=Dee Brown (writer)|title-link=Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee}}</ref>

[[File:U.S. Army-Cavalry Pursuing Indians-1876.jpg|225px|left|thumb|[[United States Army Cavalry|U.S. Army Cavalry]] soldiers engaged in the "[[Indian Wars]]" of the Mid-19th Century [[American West]]]]

The 1866 [[Fetterman Fight]] marked a key victory of the [[Lakota people|Lakota]], [[Cheyenne]], and [[Arapaho]] Indians over soldiers of the [[United States Army Cavalry|United States Army]], and the 1867 [[Wagon Box Fight]] involved [[Lakota Sioux]] and soldiers from nearby [[Fort Phil Kearny]].<ref>{{cite map |title=Official State Highway Map of Wyoming |publisher=Wyoming Department of Transportation |year=2014 }}</ref>  Fort Phil Kearny, including the nearby sites of the Fetterman engagement and the Wagon Box Fight, was designated a [[National Historic Landmark]] in 1960.<ref name="nhlsum">{{cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=565&ResourceType=Site|title=Fort Phil Kearny and Associated Sites|access-date=2008-02-29|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312211503/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=565&ResourceType=Site|archive-date=2007-03-12|df=}}</ref>

With the advent of the automobile in the early 1900s, the area around Story became, and has remained, a popular destination in Wyoming for tourists, [[Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scout]] troops and others for camping, fishing, and other outdoor recreational activities.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}
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