Name: Red Buttes

 

County: Natrona

 

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Longitude:  1063017W

Latitude: 424438N

 

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Elevation: 6010/1832

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Feature Type: Summit

 

Origin of Name:

So named by the soldiers stationed at Fort Caspar in 1865, on account of the "Red Buttes Fight" on July 26, 1865. On this hill, on the old military road about 6 miles west from the City of Casper and four miles in a due westerly direction from Old Fort Caspar, Sergeant Amos J. Custard and eighteen of his men of the 11th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry were killed by several thousand Indians, who, a few hours earlier, had killed Lieutenant Caspar W. Collins and five of his comrades near Platte Bridge Station. The nineteen men were buried in two trenches where they were killed.

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Bessemer Mountain

 

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