Everyone makes mistakes. Some are silly. Some are deadly. Among the deadly mistakes in the wild west—an entire book could be written about this subject—are these whoppers:
--Captain William J. Fetterman boasted that he could wipe out the entire Sioux nation with eighty men. Instead, he and his eighty men were surrounded and killed by a estimated 1,500 Sioux on December 21, 1866, at Wyoming's Fort Phil Kearny in what became known as the Fetterman Massacre.
--The Donner Party got stuck i
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