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By Susan Van Den Bosch, February 24, 2026
Oregon Trail
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| 1 ► Nebraska, Phelps County, Bertrand — Plum Creek Massacre Site — August 8, 1864 — Reported permanently removed |
| An early morning attack on a train of 12 wagons at this spot resulted in the death of 11 men and the capture of Mrs. Thomas Morton and 9 year old Danny Marble. The attack was by Indian “Dog Soldiers” of the Cheyenne Tribe led by Chief Bull Bear. . . . — — Map (db m294411) HM | |||
| 2 ► Nebraska, Phelps County, Bertrand — The Plum Creek Massacre — Reported permanently removed |
| On the morning of August 8, 1864, a war party of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians attacked a Denver-bound freight wagon train killing thirteen men and taking captive Nancy Jane Morton of Sidney, Iowa, and nine-year old Daniel Marble of Council Bluffs, . . . — — Map (db m294410) HM | |||