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Battle Canyon
Come travel to the place where the last
Indian battle in Kansas was fought.
Punished Woman’s Fork, it is about a
mile south of Lake Scott State Park on
Hwy 95. A monument overlooks a cave,
a canyon, and the bluffs where The Northern
Cheyenne hid, waiting to ambush the
U.S. Cavalry.
In the battle that followed, Commanding
Officer Lt. Col. William H. Lewis was
mortally wounded, the last officer killed
in military action in the state of Kansas.
During the night after the battle, the
Northern Cheyenne fled.
This area has been designated a State
and National historic site. Conditions
have changed since the battle itself.
The creek no longer flows as it did in 1878,
but one can still sense the historic drama that
took place here and can appreciate the
desperate situation which led to this battle.
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