on wagon axles that held the wheels in place. The other was for pinning theDoubletreeto the wagonTongue, with the wrench handle being used as the pin. One advantage of such an arrangement was that the horses were automatically disconnected from the wagon before a wheel was intentionally ...
He described “dead warriors and horses piled all around the [wagon] boxes and scattered over the plain.” In 1969, at a reenactment of the Wagon Box Fight near Sheridan, WY., some Indian descendants of the participants claimed Indian casualties were between 1,200 and 1,500. Hyde said ...