BeEcher's Island
Other Names: Forsyth Fight
Date of Battle: September, 14, 1868
Location of Battle: Wray, CO
GPS
N: 39-52.332
W: 102-11.147
Participants: Major Forsyth with 50 men against 500 Cheyenne and Sioux
Surrounded on a small Island the 50 frontiersman held off the Indians for five days until a unit of Buffalo Soldiers arrived to rescue them. 6 of Forsyth's men and about 30 Indians were killed.
For more information see:
Encyclopedia of Indian Wars
The Fighting Cheyennes
Indian Wars of the Great Plains
Indian Fights and Fighters
Indian Wars of the West
Life of George Bent
Plains Indian Raiders
Tribal Wars on the Southern Plains
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