Sheridan

The panel gives the people it calls removed one clause. After the war of 1876 the army sent about a thousand Northern Cheyenne to Indian Territory in 1877, where many died short of medicine and rations. In September 1878 Little Wolf and Dull Knife led some three hundred north again, and Little Wolf's band reached the Tongue River country it had left. On November 26, 1884, two years after Loucks platted Sheridan, an executive order set aside 765 square miles for them in Montana, along the Rosebud north of here.

What the plaque says

Sheridan Founded only a few years after removal of Native American tribes from the Powder River Basin, the town of Sheridan retains the atmosphere of a bustling late 19th/early 20th century western town. The original downtown was platted in 1882 by John D. Loucks and named in honor of Civil War General Philip Sheridan. The arrival of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad in 1892 cemented Sheridan's permanence as a thriving business center. The town's population exploded from a mere 281 people in 1890 to nearly 5000 by 1907. The architecture of two historic districts, a National Historic Landmark, and other monumental historic buildings reflect the regional history and economy which gave rise to Sheridan as a center of trade, commerce, government, and politics. Today, only a few 1880s wooden buildings remain on Historic Main Street, with most structures dating to the prosperous times of the early 20th century. The Historic Railroad District includes the original 1892 depot, the 1893 Sheridan Inn, and the 1912 brick depot. The Sheridan Inn was said to be the finest hotel between Chicago and San Francisco and hosted such famous figures as Will Rogers, "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Ernest Hemingway, and President Calvin Coolidge. The lavish Trail End mansion, built by cattleman, former Governor and U.S. Senator John Kendrick between 1908 and 1913, attests to the fortunes, success and political prominence achieved by Sheridan County and the many newcomers to the region.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Trail End State Historic Site — 7.5 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 — 7.6 mi
  A hunting-lodge hotel with sixty-nine gables, where Buffalo Bill is said to have auditioned Wild West acts from the porch.
• Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site — 12 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.
• Connor Battlefield State Historic Site — 19 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.

More markers nearby

• The Bozeman Trail and the Goose Creek Valley — steps away
• Bozeman Trail — 4.4 mi
• O. P. Hanna Cabin Marker and Sundial — 4.8 mi
• Site of the First Cabin Built in Sheridan — 7.2 mi