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them. One of the first recorded conflicts with whites included an incident near modern-day
Kaycee (named for the KC Ranch) when Lutheran missionaries set up a mission to convert
Crows. When the missionaries arrived and set up camp in 1860, the Crow were no longer
in the area, and the Sioux and Cheyenne did not want the missionaries around. One of the
missionaries quickly deserted the mission; another was killed by the Indians, and the others
fled for their lives. The Indians felt justified running the missionaries off and burning the
mission because the Treaty of 1851, signed at Fort Laramie, had declared everything east of
the Big Horns to the Black Hills and north of the North Platte River to be Indian territory.
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