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  Encyclopedia: Fort Robinson
In January 1879, the Fort was the scene of a major battle as the result of the Cheyenne Outbreak led by Chief Dull Knife.
A new chapter of Fort Robinson's history began in 1955, when a portion of the fort was acquired by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission for use as a state park.
Fort Robinson, a military outpost from 1874 to 1948, is located in the heart of the rugged Pine Ridge region of northern Nebraska.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fort-Robinson   (1108 words)

  
 Fort Robinson History
Through the years Fort Robinson was continually expanded and became one of the largest military installations on the northern Plains.
Lieutenant Levi Robinson, namesake of Fort Robinson, was killed in February 1874 by Indians from the Red Cloud Agency while on a wood gathering detail near Fort Laramie.
The railroad guaranteed Fort Robinson's importance and prolonged its military occupation.
www.nebraskahistory.org /sites/fortrob/history.htm   (931 words)

  
 Fort Robinson and the American West, 1874-1899   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fort Robinson was established in 1874 after troubles occurred at the nearby Red Cloud agency.
In the 1880s, the fort became the base of operations for the Ninth Cavalry, the "Buffalo Soldiers." The Ghost Dance uprising at nearby Pine Ridge in 1890 was the last great event involving troops at Fort Robinson.
The fort became a sleepy reminder of times gone by by the end of the century when Buecker's account ends, though the fort was brought back to life during both World Wars as a supply and training center, and as a POW camp.
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 Fort Robinson State Park - Nebraska State Park -
Fort Robinson State Park - Info on Fort Robinson State Park.
Fort Robinson State Park Notes - Personal notes on Fort Robinson State Park.
Lake is located in Fort Robinson State Park, in Sioux County...
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 Crawford, Nebraska - brought to you by LASR - Leisure And Sport Review
Fort Robinson was also one of 20 prisoner of war camps located in Nebraska.
Deactivated in 1948, Fort Robinson is now a state park, with many buildings restored as a part of the State Historical Society's out-state museum system.
Starting with Fort Robinson's centennial in 1974, the Western Art Show is also held during this event and a big parade on the morning of the Fourth.
www.lasr.net /pages/city.php?City_ID=NE0202003&VA=Y   (434 words)

  
 more about Fort Robinson Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The fascinating history of Fort Robinson covers the years from 1874 to 1948; from the Indian Wars to World War II, including the Cheyenne Outbreak.
The Fort Robinson Museum is located in the 1905 post headquarters building, one of several sites and structures maintained by the Nebraska State Historical Society within the boundaries of Fort Robinson State Park
Fort Robinson timeline -- a brief chronology of Fort Robinson.
www.nebraskahistory.org /sites/fortrob/moreinfo.htm   (177 words)

  
 Nebraska Game and Parks Commission - Parks - Area Search
Fort Robinson Restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner daily during the summer season.
Fort Robinson State Park visitors can choose lodging from rooms in the 1909 enlisted men's quarters or "cabins" ranging from sleep 2 to 20 in the former officers quarters that date from 1874 to 1909.
Allow Horses: Fort Robinson is a horse lover's paradise with some 22,000 acres with many miles of trails and fire service roads to ride.
www.ngpc.state.ne.us /parks/guides/parksearch/showpark.asp?Area_No=77   (736 words)

  
 Fort Laramie Photos III
An inportant, although routine, portion of military life at western forts was the laying in of wood for use as fuel for heating.
Fort Laramie was served by a pinery located near Laramie Peak to the west of Ft. Laramie.
In 1878, Camp Robinson was renamed as Fort Robinson and gradually grew.
www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com /ftlar3.html   (1235 words)

  
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FORT ROBINSON In March, 1874, the U.S. Government authorized the establishment of a military camp at the Red Cloud Agency on the White River.
Fort Robinson played an important role in the Indian wars from 1876 to 1890.
In the 20th Century, Fort Robinson became the world's largest military remount depot, and during the second World War, was the site of a K-9 corps training center, and German prisoner-of-war camp.
www.panesu.org /subject/markers/Fort-Robinson   (218 words)

  
 Montana: The Magazine of Western History: Fort Robinson and the American Century, 1900-1948   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It was not until I arrived that I learned, under the guidance of Fort Robinson Museum curator Thomas R. Buecker, that the fort's rich military history did not end with the nineteenth century.
In this volume, the follow-up to Fort Robinson and the Indian Wars, Buecker begins his history with the fort facing closure, something that would be repeated many times in the next decades.
The fort served as a remount depot through much of the twentieth century, even after "[t]he end of the mounted cavalry brought a significant change to the longstanding role of the remount," and then, after World War II, as a United States Department of Agriculture research station (p.
newssearch.looksmart.com /p/articles/mi_qa3951/is_200304/ai_n9181350   (490 words)

  
 Fort Robinson Museum of the Nebraska State Historical Society
The museum at Fort Robinson is located in the 1905 post headquarters building.
To learn more about Fort Robinson's history, you can visit more than a dozen historic structures and sites such as the 1904 flsmith shop, the 1908 veterinary hospital, the 1887 officers' quarters, the 1875 guardhouse and adjutant's office, and the old post cemetery.
A library featuring materials on Fort Robinson, military, and western history is available to researchers for inhouse use.
www.nebraskahistory.org /sites/fortrob   (247 words)

  
 Welcome to the University of Oklahoma Press - home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fort Robinson and the American Century, 1900-1948, is based on more than twenty years of archival research as well as the personal recollections of the men and women who served at the fort.
Thomas R. Buecker is curator of the Nebraska State Historical Society’s Fort Robinson Museum, Crawford, Nebraska, and the author of Fort Robinson and the American West, 1874-1899.
This previous volume, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press, is a history of the fort during its years as one of the most prominent and colorful military posts of the late nineteenth century.
www.oupress.com /bookdetail_printer.asp?isbn=0-8061-3646-4   (261 words)

  
 Fort Robinson
Fort Robinson (originally Camp Robinson) was established to protect the Red Cloud Indian Agency in 1874.
The first permanent barracks were built that year.This building was used as enlisted men's barracks and now serves as a hotel.
Visitors may learn about the history of Fort Robinson at this museum, located by the parade grounds.
www.norris160.org /third/bentzingerb/fort.htm   (115 words)

  
 Fort Robinson State Park
Fort Robinson State Park is 22,000 acres of fun.
Like many of the forts in this area of the state, Fort Robinson was established as a military post as an Indian Agency protective post in 1874.
Crazy Horse, the victor in the Battle of the Little Big Horn, was bayoneted at Fort Robinson shortly after he had been arrested and taken there as a prisoner.
www.byways.org /browse/byways/16471/places/38156   (327 words)

  
 ICT [2006/01/13]  Dull Knife run honors ancestors and youth
CUSTER, S.D. - The road from Fort Robinson in Nebraska to the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana is 400 miles, yet runners as young as 7 made the run to honor ancestors who lost their lives at the fort while attempting to return home.
The annual Fort Robinson Outbreak Spiritual Run is primarily a ceremonial run to honor the ancestors.
It is in honor of those who died at the fort and those repatriated to the Northern Cheyenne reservation that the Fort Robinson Outbreak Run takes place.
www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096412272   (901 words)

  
 Fort Robinson, NE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fort Robinson, NE Fort Robinson has much History dating back to the 1860's when the camp and later the Fort was used to protect the Indian agency's ability to distribute food to the Indian tribes.
For recreation, the Fort has excellent facilities for horses and trail rides.
The museum covers the history of the Fort and the area.
www.concentric.net /~Margen1/fort.htm   (122 words)

  
 Military Images: Fort Robinson and the American West 1874-1899   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fort Robinson and the American West 1874-1899, by Thomas R. Buecker.
Author Buecker, curator of the Fort Robinson Museum, deftly presents the history of Fort Robinson as a microcosm of the American West.
Fort Robinson and the American West will take its rightful place alongside Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay and other classics of the Frontier Army.
newssearch.looksmart.com /p/articles/mi_qa3905/is_199907/ai_n8855835   (275 words)

  
 FORTS OF THE WEST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fort Robinson played a vital part in the story of the American West.
This is half of that undertaking, the first of a two volume history of Fort Robinson.
Fort Union was one of the most important fur trade posts on the upper Missouri.
www.fortlaramie.com /forts_of_the_west.htm   (317 words)

  
 AAA Native Arts - Once the most numerous peoples in Florida, the Ais are now extinct
And in a considerable irony, since Fort Pierce was built to keep American Indians out, its site is now watched over by a mound containing the remains of some of the area's original inhabitants.
And although the Ais died out before the fort was built, and before the Seminoles migrated south from Alabama and Georgia, the survival of their structure compared to the vanishing of the soldiers' fort seems a silent testimony to true permanence.
Fort Pierce, according to the museum, was built in 1838 and was abandoned in 1842 at the end of the second Seminole War, burning down the following year.
spiritpath.aaanativearts.com /article659.html   (989 words)

  
 Phil Konstantin's 2003 Vacation: Grattan Battlefield, Wyoming, Fort Robinson, Nebraska, 'The Great Smoke', Laramie ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
According to a ranger at Fort Laramie, the treaty of 1851 was not signed at the fort.
Crazy Horse will killed on this spot in Fort Robinson.
The entry from my book: "At Fort Robinson in northwestern Nebraska, the Cheyenne were being held in the barracks without food or wood because they would not return to their reservation.
americanindian.net /2003p.html   (1040 words)

  
 Robinson State Park, a Massachusetts State Park near Agawam, Belchertown, Bristol, Chicopee, East Longmeadow
Robinson State Park serves as a major day use area for its region.
Robinson State Park - Robinson State Park Overview.
Robinson State Park is located in the south-western part of central Massachusetts.
www.stateparks.com /robinson.html   (195 words)

  
 Welcome to News From Indian Country   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
On January 9, 1879, the Cheyenne overpowered their guards and “broke out” of Fort Robinson, running to the safety of the nearby bluffs.
Before leaving for Fort Robinson to begin their 400-mile trek, the runners were taken to Medicine Deer Rock, a sacred site on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation.
Their route took them from Fort Robinson, Nebraska to Hot Springs and Deadwood, South Dakota, then to Hammond, Montana and, finally, to the mass grave cemetery on a hill in Busby where all those killed during the “break out” are buried.
www.indiancountrynews.com /breakout.cfm   (1225 words)

  
 Ghost Towns of Nebraska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
And in January 1878, it was officially designated Fort Robinson.
Fort Robinson is partially restored, as there is also a museum there.
Fort Robinson is located, when travelling east - past Van Tassell, WY and before Crawford, NE.
www.hillsghosttowns.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /ghost_towns_of_nebraska.htm   (1461 words)

  
 Fourth Annual Fort Robinson Memorial Breakout Run
The Fourth Annual Fort Robinson Memorial Breakout Run, January 5th through 8th, commemorated the 120th anniversary of the slaughter of Chief Dull Knife’s followers in Nebraska.
In 1879, 300 Cheyenne fled Fort Reno, OK in a race toward Montana’s Tongue River country with the U.S. cavalry in hot pursuit.
The funeral procession stopped at Fort Robinson to assure these ancestors they would be taken home.
www.canku-luta.org /oldnews/race.html   (402 words)

  
 Fort Robinson’s Longhorn Herd is Unique in the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This spring, Mike Morava, Fort Robinson park superintendent, will calve more than 100 purebred longhorn calves, carefully marking and recording each young longhorn’s lineage and registering the birth records in all three of the existing official longhorn registries.
“The Fort Robinson herd management is tightly controlled to preserve the old-time longhorn’s characteristics — color and confirmation, hardiness and horn,” Morava says.
Fort Robinson’s Texas Longhorns can be seen year-round at the park.
www.swnebr.net /newspaper/cgi-bin/articles/printversion.pl?157256   (318 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Fort Robinson and the American West, 1874-1899: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fort Robinson and the American Century, 1900-1948 by Thomas R. Buecker
Thomas R. Buecker is the curator of the Fort Robinson Museum in Crawford, Nebraska.
The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 begat the Red Cloud Agency, and Red Cloud Agency begat Camp Robinson.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0806135344?v=glance   (1341 words)

  
 Fort Robinson
Fort Robinson, near Crawford and Chadron Nebraska, is a retired military base with a long and colorful history.
Fort Robinson State Park now consists of over 22,00 acres of land, and is adjacent to both a Wildlife Area and Solider Creek National Forest.
I am currently working with Fort Robinson State Park to help in producing maps of their land, boundaries, and trails.
gis.unk.edu /fort_rob_top.htm   (194 words)

  
 APHA ranch horse competition set for Nebraska's Fort Robinson - Equiworld Magazine July 2004
FORT WORTH, Texas-The working relationship between cowboys, cowgirls and their horses will be put to the test at the American Paint Horse Association (APHA) Paint Ranch Horse Round Up, to be held Sept. 11 at Fort Robinson State Park, just west of Crawford, Nebraska.
The Fort Robinson ride offers breathtaking views and outstanding trails that pass through tall-grass prairies, breathtaking rock formations and Ponderosa forests.
The first APHA-sponsored ranch horse competition was held in Stephenville, Texas, last May. The competition at Fort Robinson will be the association's second working ranch horse event.
www.equiworld.net /uk/ezine/0704/apha02.htm   (600 words)

  
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