Connor Battlefield State Park

The Indian scouts on this 1936 plate were Pawnee, Omaha and Winnebago, the Ho-Chunk. Frank North had mustered his company of Pawnee into federal service in January 1865, and thirty of them rode with Connor that night, with forty Omaha and Winnebago scouts under Captain Edwin Nash. The Pawnee had long been at war with the Lakota and Cheyenne. Connor afterward commended fifteen Pawnee and four Winnebago, among them their chief Little Priest. An Omaha scout, Private Little Bird, was killed in the fight.

What the plaque says

Connor Battlefield State Park Here Aug. 29, 1865, troops and Indian scouts commanded by Gen. P.E. Connor destroyed an Arapahoe Indian village. Erected by The Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Connor Battlefield State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  In 1865 General Connor's troops attacked Black Bear's Arapaho village here while many of its men were away; women and children died with the warriors.
• Trail End State Historic Site — 12 mi
  A Texas trail hand's Flemish Revival mansion, five years in the building, that he barely lived in once Wyoming sent him to the governor's office and the Senate.
• Sheridan Inn — 12 mi
  A hunting-lodge hotel with sixty-nine gables, where Buffalo Bill is said to have auditioned Wild West acts from the porch.
• Rosebud Battlefield State Park — 24 mi
  The ridges where Crook's column was stopped eight days before the Little Bighorn, remembered by the Cheyenne for one woman's ride.

More markers nearby

• The Battle of Tongue River — steps away
• Bozeman Trail — 3.4 mi
• Tongue River Crossing — 3.4 mi
• The Black Diamonds of Wyoming — 5.1 mi