In late June 1867, General George Armstrong Custer, commanding troops A, D, E, H, K, and M of the Seventh Cavalry, camped near here after a march from Fort McPherson, Nebraska, while campaigning against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. On June 24, Pawnee Killer led a dawn attack on Custer’s camp that wounded a sentry, followed by a parley between Custer and his officers and Pawnee Killer, Pole Cat, Fire Lightning, and Walks Underground, in which neither side learned the plans of the other and an Indian effort to separate the officers from their command was thwarted. Later, Captain Hamilton and forty troopers, pursuing a decoy war party, rode into an ambush seven miles northwest of camp but fought their way out, killing two warriors. Custer’s supply train of sixteen wagons, returning from Fort Wallace, Kansas, was attacked near Black Butte Creek, Kansas, and killed several Indians. Lieutenant Kidder, ten troopers, and scout Red Bead, carrying orders from Fort Sedgwick, Colorado, missed Custer’s camp and were killed near Beaver Creek, and Custer found and buried their mutilated bodies on July 12. Custer’s career ended at the Little Big Horn, Montana, on June 25, 1876.