The Interpretive Trail (Fetterman)

The artist the panel credits last is Paul Goble, author and illustrator of more than thirty children's books, and his tie to this ground ran deep. In 1972, with his wife Dorothy, he published The Hundred in the Hands: Brave Eagle's Account of the Fetterman Fight, telling the battle through a fictional young Lakota warrior drawn from the published Indian accounts, in a ledger-art style. In 1959 Chief Edgar Red Cloud had adopted him and named him Wakinyan Chikala, Little Thunder. Goble died in 2017.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site — 2.9 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.
• Occidental Hotel — 17 mi
  Buffalo's 1880 grand hotel, its 1908 saloon ceiling still pocked with bullet holes, won once in a poker game and nearly torn down in the 1990s.
• Trail End State Historic Site — 17 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 — 17 mi
  A hunting-lodge hotel with sixty-nine gables, where Buffalo Bill is said to have auditioned Wild West acts from the porch.

More markers nearby

• With the Arrival Of... (Fetterman) — steps away
• The Fetterman Fight (panel) — steps away
• Fetterman Monument — steps away
• John (Portugee) Phillips — 2.6 mi