Historical Marker
The Jenney Stockade
Weston County · Wyoming
Erected by Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming, 1940
The bronze calls the Jenney party a survey for the United States, and that was its weight. Sent in 1875 after Custer's reports, it confirmed gold in country the 1868 treaty had reserved to the Lakota, and that autumn the government came to buy. On September 20, 1875, Senator William Allison's commission opened a council in northwestern Nebraska with thousands of Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho present. Allison began by proposing to lease the Black Hills until the gold was gone. Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse stayed away, and the council ended without a sale.
What the plaque says
The Jenney Stockade One-half mile east of this spot, was a supply depot for army units convoying the Professor W. P. Jenney party, which, in 1875, surveyed mineral and other resources of the Black Hills for the United States. In 1876 it was a station of the Cheyenne-Deadwood stage line. Dedicated by the Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming August 31, 1940 The National Register of Historic Places - Wyoming Place No. 28 Jenny Stockade
Where it stands
43.81597, -104.12303 · Directions
More markers nearby
- Camp Jenney — steps away
- Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail — 0.7 mi
- Site of Field City — 1.0 mi
- Cambria — 7.6 mi