Contact Misty Moore at 307-684-7629 or JoAnne Puckett, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. website: www.fortphilkearny.com

Three distinguished speakers at Kearney Hall followed by tour of significant but lesser known battle sites. Event begins at Kearney Community Hall, 4444 Hwy 87, Banner, WY

Speakers: 9:00am - 11:45am  (speaking event is free)

Box Lunch: 12noon - $10 per person

Bus Tour: 1:00pm - 5:30pm - $30 per person  (limited to 50 people)

ALL Events - Speakers - Lunch - Bus Tour:  $40 per person

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Speaking event and lunch will be at Kearney Community Hall, 4444 Hwy 87, Banner (just about a mile from Fort Phil Kearny) - the bus will leave from Kearney Community Hall.

Three speakers include authors John Hart (Bluecoat and Pioneer; The Recollections of John Benton Hart, 1864–1868 By John Benton Hart, Edited by John Hart) and John Russell (Treasure State Tycoon: Nelson Story and the Making of Montana), and local Historian Sonny Reisch.

The guided bus tour, with historians Bob Wilson and Sonny Reisch, will be limited to 50 people in an air-conditioned comfort bus with snack and beverage. There are restrooms on board. The tour will be of the Tillotson Fight, Dec. 6th Fight, French Pete Site, Shurly Fight, Sawyers Expedition and Fight, and Battle of Tongue River.

About the speakers:

John Hart is the author of sixteen books. Born in California, completing his ancestors’ westward drift, he explored eastern roots while at Princeton (BA 1970), but left the beckoning academic track to become a freelance writer. His topics have included Western water policy, farmland preservation, and wilderness travel; he is also a poet, with a collection, The Climbers, in the Pitt Poetry Series. He hopes to make it up Cloud Peak this trip!

John C. Russell was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and moved to Bozeman to attend Montana State University. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1978. He has worked as a broadcast reporter in television and radio, and most recently as director of the Gallatin (County) Historical Society. John has written several historical articles, one published in Wild West Magazine. He and his wife Peggy live in Bozeman. This is his first book.

Sheridan native Sonny Reisch attended Casper College and then the University of Wyoming where he earned his degree in history. He served as Superintendent, Historian, and Curator at Fort Phil Kearny for 25 years. Life experiences gave Sonny the opportunity to know Dr. Joe Medicine Crow of the Crow tribe, Ted Risingsun and John Wooden Leg of the Cheyenne, Jack McDermott, and many other highly respected individuals. As a professional historian, Sonny has published numerous articles on the Bozeman Trail, the Forts, and Indian Wars that are hailed as valuable and accurate resources, and has left a treasury of research on the history of the Bozeman Trail and FPK sites, and continues today.

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