Crook Monument

The wait the plaque describes ended on June 14, 1876, when about 175 Crow under Old Crow and Medicine Crow and 86 Shoshone under Washakie rode into this camp. Three days later, on the Rosebud, their warning and their fighting withdrawal kept Crook's column from being overrun. Then he came back here, his wounded on travois, and stayed some seven weeks awaiting reinforcements, going hunting and fishing on June 22. Three days after that, the Lakota and Cheyenne warriors who had fought him on the Rosebud destroyed Custer's command on the Little Bighorn.

What the plaque says

Dedicated to the memory of General George Crook his gallant soldiers and scouts who, in June, 1876, camped in the valley of the Goose Creeks on the present site of Sheridan, while waiting for their Crow and Shoshoni allies. Sheridan Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1939

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sheridan Inn — 0.4 mi
  A hunting-lodge hotel with sixty-nine gables, where Buffalo Bill is said to have auditioned Wild West acts from the porch.
• Trail End State Historic Site — 0.4 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.
• Connor Battlefield State Historic Site — 12 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.
• Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site — 20 mi
  A Bozeman Trail fort whose wood trains were attacked for two years, and the wagon-box corral where its woodcutters held out behind new breech-loaders in 1867.

More markers nearby

• Site of the First Cabin Built in Sheridan — 0.3 mi
• Mines Shape a Community — 4.9 mi
• The Bozeman Trail and the Goose Creek Valley — 7.4 mi
• Sheridan — 7.4 mi