The legacy of Fort Keogh. (history of Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory)

From: Agricultural Research | Date: January 1, 1991| Author: | Copyright information

The Legacy of Fort Keogh

Shortly after the deaths of Colonel George Armstrong Custer and Colonel Myles Keogh, one of his officers at the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876, General Nelson A. Miles was sent to the area with orders to establish a fort.

Miles selected a strategic site where the Yellowstone and Tongue Rivers meet from which to conduct a military campaign against the Indians. On July 22, 1876, Congress established the Fort Keogh Military Reservation.

Miles succeeded in his mission - by the early 1880's most of the tribes had surrendered and were ...

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