MZFCollection1117.xml Guide to the Fort Keogh Collection1879-1884 Fort Keogh Collection Kim Allen Scott, 2017 Montana State University-Bozeman Library
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Finding aid written in English Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition) Montana State University-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320 Bozeman, MT 59717-3320 United States Phone (406) 994-4242 Fax (406) 994-2851 http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/ University Archivist spcoll@www.lib.montana.edu
Collection 1117, MtBC, us Fort Keogh (Mont.) Fort Keogh Collection 1879-1884 2 items The Fort Keogh Collection Collection materials are in consists of an Invoice of Subsistence Stores that documents the receipt of 45 head of beef cattle by Lt. Charles F. Roe from Capt. J. F. Weston, both of the Second U.S. Cavalry, along with leaf taken from a Fort Keogh commissary book that documents a requisition for supplies signed by Lt. T. F. Forbes, Fifth Infantry, to W.S. Ely, Fort Snelling, Minnesota.English Biographical Note

Fort Keogh, Montana was first occupied in 1876 and 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. Keogh was converted to livestock experiment station in 1908 and during WWI was used as a quartermaster’s depot. In 1924 the Fort Keogh military reservation was transferred to Department of Interior and today the Range and Livestock Experiment Station of the Department of Agriculture occupies the fort in cooperation with the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station.

The Fort Keogh collection consists of an Invoice of Subsistence Stores dated October 15, 1879, documenting the receipt of 45 head of beef cattle by Lt. Charles F. Roe from Capt. J. F. Weston, both of the Second U.S. Cavalry, along with leaf taken from a Fort Keogh commissary book (representing pages 41 and 42) that documents a requisition for supplies signed by Lt. T. F. Forbes, Fifth Infantry, to W.S. Ely, Fort Snelling, Minnesota on June 20, 1884.

This collection is open for research.

An original invoice issued by a member of the Fort Keogh garrison was donated to Montana State University by Oscar O. Thomas of Bozeman, Montana on June 27, 1975. A page from a Fort Keogh commissary book was donated to Montana State University by Harriette Cushman, also of Bozeman, sometime prior to 1978. It had formerly been assigned collection number 1251.

This collection was processed 2017 July 13

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