The Dull Knife Battlefield is located on the eastern slope of the Bighorn Mountains in Johnson County, Wyoming near Barnum, Wyoming. It was the scene of the Dull Knife Fight

Dull Knife Fight

The Dull Knife Fight, or the Battle of Bates Creek, was a Great Plains battle in the Wyoming Territory between the United States Army and the Northern Cheyenne as part of the Great Sioux War of 1876-77. The battle essentially ended the Cheyennes' ability to wage war.After the battles of the Rosebud...

 on November 25, 1876, in which the Fourth Cavalry under General Ranald S. Mackenzie

Ranald S. Mackenzie

Ranald Slidell Mackenzie was a career United States Army officer and general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, described by General Ulysses S. Grant as its most promising young officer...

 raided a Cheyenne

Cheyenne

Cheyenne are a Native American people of the Great Plains, who are of the Algonquian language family. The Cheyenne Nation is composed of two united tribes, the Só'taeo'o and the Tsétsêhéstâhese .The Cheyenne are thought to have branched off other tribes of Algonquian stock inhabiting lands...

 winter encampment, forcing the Cheyenne to surrender at agencies in the area in order to survive the winter.

The battlefield site was considered by the Cheyenne to be sufficiently remote to be safe as winter quarters. The location is presently the site of a ranch. The site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

in 1979.

External links

• Photographs of the Dull Knife Battlefield at the National Park Service's NRHP database
• Dull Knife Battlefield at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office