The History Of Fort Robinson

MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM HARDING CARTER

Publication: The Northwest Nebraska News, 1941, Crawford

First Edition. Stiff Printed Wrappers. 20 pp., dedication, illustrations. Jeannette Meredith was Regent of Christopher Robinson Chapter, D.A.R. at Crawford, Nebraska. As such, she wanted to preserve the history of Fort Robinson, located three miles west of Crawford, and so she wrote to General William Harding Carter, who was one of the early officers at the post, asking for assistance. Jeannette received from him the manuscript and original photographs of which this booklet is a copy. In March 1871, the United States Government authorized the establishment of a military camp at the Red Cloud Indian Agency on the White River. Home of some 13,000 Indians, the agency was one of the most troublesome spots on the Plains. The camp was officially named Camp Robinson in 1874, and due to its location in the heart of the Sioux country, played an active role in the Indian Wars. Its garrison took part in the campaigns against the Sioux and Cheyennes, preceding and following the Custer Massacre, 1875, 1876, and 1877, and formed a part of the cavalry columns which closed around the Sioux in the last of the Indian wars of the plains in 1890 and 1891, known as the Pine Ridge campaign. Edges of wrappers lightly tanned, interior clean. Near fine copy.

Inventory Number: 51303