On August 2nd

On August 2, 1867, a small party held off hundreds of Lakota warriors behind wagon boxes. The documented date is 1867-08-02. A fort with documented casualties writes its own foundation — the lore comes after. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Wagon Box Fight'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.

On August 2, 1867, thirty-two soldiers and woodcutters fought off hundreds of Lakota and Cheyenne attackers from behind a corral of wagon boxes west of Fort Phil Kearny — the new breech-loading rifles making the difference. Casualty claims were wildly exaggerated at the time, but the stand became instant frontier legend.