The combatants were the Wyoming Stock Growers Association (the WSGA) and the Northern Wyoming Farmers and Stock Growers' Association (NWFSGA). Actually this range war took place in April 1892 in Johnson County, Natrona County and Converse County. 1892: The Johnson County War in Wyoming.The latter was formed by an alliance between the National Congress of Chile and the Chilean Navy. José Manuel Balmaceda, President of Chile, and the Chilean Army loyal to him face Jorge Montt's Junta. 1891: Chilean Civil War fought from January to September.This was the last tribe to be invaded which broke the backbone of the American Indian Wars and the American Frontier.
The incident is noteworthy as the engagement in military history in which the most Medals of Honor have been awarded in the military history of the United States. Around 150 Lakota are believed to have fled the chaos, with an unknown number later dying from hypothermia. Twenty-five troopers also died, some believed to have been the victims of friendly fire as the shooting took place at point-blank range in chaotic conditions. By the time it was over, about 146 men, women, and children of the Lakota Sioux had been killed. The 7th Cavalry quickly suppressed the Sioux fire, and the surviving Sioux fled, but US cavalrymen pursued and killed many who were unarmed. A scuffle over Black Coyote's rifle escalated into an all-out battle, with those few Sioux warriors who still had weapons shooting at the 7th Cavalry, and the 7th Cavalry opening fire indiscriminately from all sides, killing men, women, and children, as well as some of their own fellow troopers. In the process of disarming the Sioux, a deaf tribesman named Black Coyote could not hear the order to give up his rifle and was reluctant to do so. They were the last of the Sioux to do so. One day earlier, the Sioux had been cornered and agreed to turn themselves in at the Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota. The Army had orders to escort the Sioux to the railroad for transport to Omaha, Nebraska. On December 29, 1890, 365 troops of the US 7th Cavalry, supported by four Hotchkiss guns, surrounded an encampment of Miniconjou ( Lakota) and Hunkpapa Sioux (Lakota) near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. 1890: Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota.You can help by converting this section, if appropriate. This section is in list format but may read better as prose.