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 ...
The account of at least one Indian warrior, an Oglala Sioux named Fire Thunder, supports the claim of heavy Indian losses. 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 Sh...