Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Yellowtail Dam Visitor Center Phone: 406-666-2412 Fax: 406-666-2415 Fort Smith was established on August 12, 1866, to protect immigrants traveling on the Bozeman Trail from attacks by the...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Historic Fort Snelling Fort Snelling History Center St. Paul, MN 55111 E-mail: [email protected] Discover an 1820s military outpost once the focus of a small settlement but now at the center...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts 11907 434th Avenue Lake City, SD 57247 605.448.5474 Email: [email protected] Walk the grounds where the officers' quarters, stone barracks, powder magazine, guard house, and other...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Fort Omaha was first known as Sherman Barracks, and very soon as Omaha Barracks, when the federal government in 1868 obtained land from Omahan Augustus Kountze to establish a military...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Fort Phil Kearny P.O. Box 520 Story, WY 82842 Phone: 307-684-7629 History 1866-1868 Named for a popular Union general killed in the Civil War, Fort Phil Kearny was established at the forks of...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Fort Pierre Chouteau was a trading fort on the high Missouri River plain in the grandest, boldest sense. The late 18th and early 19th centuries were robust and fascinating times in the upper...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts The Fort Randall Military Post, located on the south side of the river just below the present site of the dam, was named for colonel Daniel Randall, a career Army officer who also served as...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Fort Reno 1865 - 1868 During the summer of 1866, Colonel Henry B. Carrington of the 18th U.S. Infantry led a force of 700 men into the Powder River country to begin construction of the new...
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