General Blazier's mistake?

The fictional Brigadier General Blazier is stated at the fort where Buffalo Bill is also for several years during the early & mid 1870s.

At one point Buffalo Bill rides to the fort and says he saw a Cheyenne war party "on the left [North] bank of the Smokey" & "twenty miles from here". So the Fort must be on the Smoky Hills River that flows mostly eastward in Kansas or within 20 miles of it.

Fort Riley, Kansas, is at 39°06′N 96°49′W and at the Junction of the Republican and Smoky Hill Rivers. Fort Hays, Kansas was at 38°51′42″N 99°20′32″W and about 10 miles north of the Smoky Hill River. Fort Wallace, Kansas. was at 38°54′18″N 101°33′34″W and about a mile from the nearest bends of the Smoky Hill river.

At one point after the Battles of The Rosebud (17 June) and Little Bighorn (25 June) in 1876, Buffalo Bill leads the cavalry from the Fort north to join the army of General Crook, and on the way they fight the Cheyenne at Warbonnett Gorge, based on a real fight on July 17, 1876.

Cody and Sgt. McGraw Later return to the fort after 6 months away, & Cody gets a message to go East. The opening narration dates the trip east to 1877. Sgt. McGraw says the president is new to the job, making it after the inauguration of Hayes on March 5, 1877. Six months before March 4, 1877 would be about September 4, 1876, which doesn't add up. Maybe Cody & McGraw returned to the Fort sometime and then rejoined the campaign against the Sioux.

If the scriptwriters assumed a modern January 20 inauguration date, Cody & the troops could have left in July about 6 months earlier.

Possibly General Blazier returned to the fort with Cody & McGraw in January or March of 1877 or later. And possibly he was sent back to Kansas to "hold down the fort(s)" under his command or something sometime after the cavalry reinforcements reached General Crook.

So General Blazier may or may not have been present and in charge of the forts in that region in the fall of 1876.

In Chuka (1967) a fictional Fort Clenendin is attacked by Arapahos under Chief Hanu in November 1876. Col. Stuart Valois, the commander of Fort Clenendin, quotes a reply from his superior, a general stationed at Fort Wallace, that the Arapaho war chief Hanu would never dare attack Fort Clendendin because it was too close to other forts like Wallace, Dodge, Hays, Bascom, and Garland.

Fort Wallace (c. 1865-1882) was in Wallace Country, Kansas, at coordinates 38°54′18″N 101°33′34″W

Fort Dodge (1865-1882) was near Dodge City, Kansas and at coordinates 37°43′50″N 99°56′5″W.

Fort Hays (1865-1889) was near Hays City, Kansas, at coordinates 38°51′42″N 99°20′32″W

Fort Bascom (1863-1870) in New Mexico was at coordinates Lat: 35.3178303 Long: -103.7032995.

Fort Garland (1858-1883) was in Costillo County, Colorado, at coordinates 37°25′46″N 105°26′7″W.

Since Fort Clenendin was about 59 miles south of Granada (Colorado) it should have been at about 37 degrees 12.45 minutes north and about 102 degrees 18.6 minutes west, miles south of Walsh, Colorado, which is at 37°23′9.99″N 102°16′47.76″W.

So if Buffalo Bill and Chuka (1967)happened in the same fictional universe, General Blazier could have been the one who told Colonel Valois that Hanu would never attack.