Miles City in Custer County, Montana — The American West (Mountains)
Fort Keogh Historic District
Photographed by Barry Swackhamer, September 13, 2020
1. Fort Keogh Historic District Marker
Inscription.
Following the defeat of General Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at Little High Horn on June 25, 1876, Congress appropriated $200,000 to establish two forts in Montana Territory. The U.S. Army selected one site along the Tongue River, a mile and a half from this location, fro a preliminary cantonment. Construction of the permanent post began at this site in the spring of 1877. Until the advent of the railroad in 1881, building supplies arrived by steamboat. The fort, named for Custer's adjutant general Captain Myles Keogh, was under the command of General Nelson Miles. Miles City, named for General Nelson Miles, grew with the fort to become the county seat of Custer County in 1879. The fort's construction exceeded the $200,000 allocation. It was the largest fort in the territory, housing about 1,500 soldiers and their families. Sixty buildings once surrounded the unique diamond-shaped parade grounds. The military withdrew its infantry troops in 1908 and in 1909 the fort became the Fort Keogh Remount Depot, the largest of the U.S. Army's three remount stations. Civilian cowboys and wranglers trained the horses according to
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military rules before shipping thousands of them worldwide, especially during World War I. In 1924, the army withdrew and transferred more than 55,000 acres of land to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Husbandry, for research purposes. Originally the U.S. Range Livestock Experiment Station, it is now the Fort Keogh Livestock & Range Research Laboratory, a USDA Agriculture Research facility.
Location. 46° 22.899′ N, 105° 53.059′ W. Marker is in Miles City, Montana, in Custer County. It is on Fort Keogh Road near Business Interstate 94. The marker is located at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Department of Livestock and Range Research Center. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Miles City MT 59301, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Southeast Montana,
Photographed by Barry Swackhamer, September 13, 2020
2. Fort Keogh Historic District Marker
in Custer Country and in the Powder River Basin. It is also in the American Mountain West, in the Lewis & Clark Corridor, on the prairies, on the Great Plains, and specifically on the Northern Plains. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once Ruperts Land and also the Louisiana Purchase.
Credits. This page was last revised on January 8, 2021. It was originally submitted on January 8, 2021, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California. This page has been viewed 536 times since then and 42 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on January 8, 2021, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
