Kevin Costner's The West

The Fetterman Fight, also known as the Fetterman Massacre

The Fetterman Fight, also known as the Fetterman Massacre. In 1866 Wyoming, a group of infantry, cavalry, and civilians under the command of Captain William Fetterman was wiped out by thousands of Native warriors of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes. The site of the battle was Fort Phil Kearney, one of many forts along the Bozeman Trail, built to connect settlers to gold mines out West