Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds of the 2nd Cavalry opened the Great Sioux War with an attack on a Northern Cheyenne and Oglala Lakota village near the location of present day Broadus.
Much native property was destroyed by the attack was poorly executed and the inhabitants of the village largely escaped. Reynolds was accused of dereliction of duty for failing to properly support the first charge with his entire command; for burning the captured supplies, food, blankets, buffalo robes, and ammunition instead of keeping them for army use; and for losing hundreds of the captured horses.
When I was a student in Laramie I lived for a time on Reynolds Street, named after Col. Reynolds.
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