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Sibley Monument
About 20 miles west of Dayton on U.S. Highway 14
Through this vicinity, a scouting party of the 2nd Cavalry, led by Lt. Frederick W. Sibley, was attacked by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians on July 7, 1876. In the fight Chief White Antelope was killed. The party abandoned its horses, took to the rugged terain, and scouts Frank Gruard and Baptiste Poirier guided the 26 soldiers and Chicago Times reporter John F. Finerty over the mountains without food, back to their main camp.
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