Frontier Fighters are thrill packed episodes in the lives of those stalwart sons and daughters of western destiny.

No name is more exalted in history that John M. Bozeman who chartered a new and shorter lifeline for those early pioneers from the Middle West to the gold fields of Montana. To this route he gave his name and so the famous Bozeman Trail came in to being. All along the route were forts, sturdy custodians of the destinies of farmers or miners or trappers. Two of the most important forts along the trail were Forts Phil Kearny and Fort Laramie.

As the story opens the hero who steps in to the drama is not John Bozeman but John “Portugee” Phillips. The scene is Fort Phil Kearny the time December 21st 1866…