Post by Diane Merkel on Feb 20, 2007 8:58:40 GMT -6
Thanks to the Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review for recommending the addition of Pawnee Fork to the National Register of Historic Places.
I'm wondering if the original owners of the Wynkoop house were related to Edward (Ned) Wynkoop.
Article: www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/21111/
The Indian Village on Pawnee Fork - Bazine vicinity, Ness County
The Indian Village on Pawnee Fork is nationally significant for its association with the Plains Indian Wars, which took place during the 1860s and 1870s. It is an archeological site (14NS403) that was the location of a Cheyenne and Sioux village occupied during the winter of 1866-1867. It was destroyed by U.S. Army General Winfield S. Hancock's forces on April 19, 1867 in what turned out to be a pivotal event during that period. Destruction of the village showed the Plains tribes that there would be no safe havens. Those groups who chose to continue fighting fought to the end, largely because of what had been learned at the Village on Pawnee Fork. Also, General George Armstrong Custer experienced his first encounter with the Plains Indian warriors at the Village on Pawnee Fork. From his experience there, he determined that dividing his forces was an appropriate course of action. That strategy was to have disastrous consequences during the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. The outcome of that famous engagement therefore had at least some of its roots in the events that took place at the Indian Village on Pawnee Fork. The Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the other engagements of the Plains Indian Wars, were (and still are today) of national significance. The site today retains much of its setting as it would have appeared in 1867. The core of the site consists of flat-topped erosional remnants bounded by the deeply incised channel of a tributary of the Pawnee River. There is no indication that this area has ever been cultivated, and it is covered with native prairie grasses.
I'm wondering if the original owners of the Wynkoop house were related to Edward (Ned) Wynkoop.
Article: www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/21111/