Fort Keogh, Montana, was first occupied in 1876, and was originally called New Post on the Yellowstone, then Cantonment on Tongue River, then Tongue River Barracks. The post was officially designated Fort Keogh in 1878; it served as army infantry and cavalry post until 1900 when it was used as an army remount station. It was converted to a livestock experiment station in 1908 and used as a quartermaster's depot during World War I. Iin 1924, the military reservation was transferred to the U.S. Department of the Interior. Today the Range and Livestock Experiment Station of the U.S. Department of Agriculture occupies the fort.
The three folders contain photocopies of miscellaneous correspondence and other materials from Fort Keogh, 1878-1892. There are two copies of the
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The materials on microfilm and in folders 1 and 2 were loaned for copying by Joe Dent and J.E Grauman in 1968. Materials in folder 3 were received from Donald Carey on an unknown date.
The materials were microfilmed by the K. Ross Toole Archives in 1968. That microfilm and two folders of photocopies were processed as SC 46; one folder of miscellaneous correspondence was processed as SC 167. In 2004, in consideration of the miscellaneous nature of the material, the collections were combined as Mss 138 and re-described.
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