In 1866, Nelson Story and two dozen cowboys drove six hundred longhorn cattle from Texas more than 1400 miles to the Livingston area of Montana, seeking to sell beef to the mining camps and eventually establishing a cattle camp near present Livingston. Story, who had made enough money in placer mines to invest in provisioning the camps, bought Texas longhorns and left Fort Worth in the spring, evading toll collectors, outfoxing rustlers, and swimming the herd across flood-swollen streams. He then chose the dangerous Bozeman Trail through central Wyoming, where Lakota and Northern Cheyenne defended their hunting grounds and the U.S. Army had established Fort Reno, Fort Phil Kearney, and Fort C.F. Smith to protect emigrants. Near Fort Reno, Indians ran off many of the cattle, but Story and his men followed them into the badlands and recovered the animals after a short skirmish in which two cowboys were wounded. At Fort Phil Kearney, commander Henry Carrington kept the herd three miles from the post and delayed Story for two weeks, after which Story moved on without permission, traveling by night and corralling the cattle by day to avoid further trouble. After passing Fort C.F. Smith, the drive continued up the Yellowstone Valley, and Story became the first to complete the long cattle drive from Texas to Montana, pioneering the Texas Trail and laying the foundation of Montana's cattle industry. About thirty miles west of here on April 18, 1867, John Bozeman, the blazer of the Bozeman Trail and a founder of the city named for him, was allegedly shot and killed by Blackfeet Indians while traveling with Tom Cover to seek military contracts at the Bozeman Trail forts. Near the mouth of Mission Creek, several Indians approached their camp, and Bozeman, thinking they were Crow, waved them in before realizing too late that they were Blackfeet, who opened fire, killing him and wounding Cover; Cover shot back, killing one of them, and the attackers fled with the horses. Cover made his way up the Yellowstone River to Story's cattle camp, but his varying account and evidence at the site led to persistent rumors that no Indians were involved and that Cover himself had shot Bozeman, possibly over Bozeman's reputed attentions to Cover's wife, though the official story remained unchanged.