In this written agreement, negotiated at Fort Laramie in what is now Wyoming, the United States guaranteed exclusive tribal occupation of extensive reservation lands, including the Black Hills ...

At the dawn of the American Civil War, tensions begin to mount between Northern and Southern sympathizers stationed at Fort Laramie in Wyoming, with gold up for grabs.

When white settlers discovered gold in Montana in the early 1860's, they began to build a road from Fort Laramie in present-day Wyoming to the gold fields. They also constructed a series of forts ...