With the Arrival Of... (Fetterman)

The debate in the East the panel describes produced a commission within months. A body organized by General Alfred Sully, with John B. Sanborn among its members, investigated the Fetterman defeat, and on July 20, 1867, after four days of debate, Congress created the Indian Peace Commission to establish peace with the tribes. Its work led to the 1868 Fort Laramie treaty that closed the Bozeman Trail forts. The government was slow to act on some of its treaties and rejected others, and violence had resumed before the commission disbanded in October 1868.

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

• The Interpretive Trail (Fetterman) — steps away
• The Fetterman Fight (panel) — steps away
• Fetterman Monument — steps away
• John (Portugee) Phillips — 2.6 mi