Sibley Monument

On July 7, 1876, Lieutenant Frederick Sibley's twenty-five men of the 2nd Cavalry, with the scouts Frank Grouard and Baptiste Pourier and the Chicago Times reporter John Finerty, ran into a large Lakota and Cheyenne party. Those warriors had destroyed Custer's command twelve days earlier, and the patrol did not yet know it. Finerty heard them hail Grouard by his Lakota name, Standing Bear. He called the Cheyenne leader killed in the fight White Antelope; one list of Little Bighorn fighters gives him as Tall Bear. The party left its horses and walked back to Crook's camp.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Connor Battlefield State Historic Site — 17 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

• First Woman Mayor in Wyoming — 12 mi
• Tongue River Crossing — 14 mi
• Bozeman Trail — 14 mi
• Bozeman Trail — 15 mi