{"id":1906,"slug":"wagon-box-fight-site-wyoming","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Wagon Box is the ringed — the 'boxes lifted' that's the corral made, the 'pine inch' that's the shield's thin. The 'new rifles' is the changed — the 'breech-load' that's the reload's speed, the 'never seen' that's the warriors' surprise. The '32 held' is the stood — the 'six hours' that's the charges broke, the 'four lost' that's the defense's cost.","The 'counts fought' is the told — the 'six said' that's the Indians' count, the '1,500 claimed' that's the whites' boast. The 'treaty gave' is the won — the '68 grant' that's the land back, the 'forts burned' that's the Army's exit. Wagon Box is the disputed — the 'both won' that's the battle's tell, the 'numbers war' that's the truth's fog.","The file keeps Wagon Box: the boxed ring, the new rifles, the disputed dead, and the treaty won.","Wagon Box Fight is the archive's Wyoming file — the corral that held and the counts that don't match."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Wagon Box Fight is the archive's Wyoming file — where 32 men behind pine boxes changed a war's math.","A fight keeps its fog — the file's suggestion being that Wagon Box's hold is the disputed: the 'new guns' that's the tech's edge, the 'counts differ' that's the truth's war, and the 'forts burned' that's the land's win."]}],"name":"Wagon Box Fight Site","aliases":[],"type":"BATTLEFIELD","type_label":"Battlefield","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","BATTLEFIELD"],"groups":["dark-history"],"desc":"Site of an 1867 conflict over the fort’s wood supply.","full_desc":"Wagon Box Fight Site is a battlefield in Story, Wyoming. Site of an 1867 conflict over the fort’s wood supply. It sits in the archive under dark history and battlefields. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Story","county":null,"state":"Wyoming","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":44.573079,"lon":-106.914173,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Historical site separate from the fort. Accounts differ sharply over tribal casualties and Red Cloud’s presence; neither a casualty number nor his attendance is asserted. Battle footprint may extend beyond monument.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":65,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"On August 2, 1867, Lakota and Cheyenne warriors fought soldiers and civilian woodcutters. A fort with documented casualties writes its own foundation — the lore comes after. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'Wagon Box Battle'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Wagon Box Battle","url":"https://www.fortphilkearny.org/wagon-box-battle-history","publisher":"Fort Phil Kearny / Bozeman Trail Association","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2}},{"description":"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.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1867-08-02","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Wagon Box Fight","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_Box_Fight","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[{"name":"Wagon Box Fight","type":"BATTLE","date_start":"1867-08-02","date_end":null,"description":"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.","evidence":"BATTLE","source":{"name":"Wagon Box Fight","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_Box_Fight","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[{"name":"James W. Powell","role":"Army commander","birth":null,"death":null,"bio":"Commanded soldiers defending the wagon-box position. The dossier ties James W. Powell to Wagon Box Fight Site as army commander. The entry is documented through 'Wagon Box Battle'. James W. Powell is filed as a documented person — part of the record the place’s stories hang on."}],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Wagon Box Battle","url":"https://www.fortphilkearny.org/wagon-box-battle-history","publisher":"Fort Phil Kearny / Bozeman Trail Association","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2},{"name":"Wagon Box Fight","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_Box_Fight","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[{"field_name":"short_description","existing_value":"Site of an 1867 conflict over the fort’s wood supply.","incoming_value":"The 1867 corral where 32 men held off hundreds.","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."},{"field_name":"full_description","existing_value":"Wagon Box Fight Site is a battlefield in Wyoming. 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Battle footprint may extend beyond monument.","incoming_value":"Lore enrichment wave 2; VERIFY task auto-queued.","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."}],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":2,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}