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    Fort Robinson is a former U.S. Army fort and now a major feature of Fort Robinson State Park, a 22,000-acre (8,900 ha) public recreation and historic...
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    The Fort Robinson breakout or Fort Robinson massacre was the attempted escape of Cheyenne captives from the U.S. army during the winter of 1878-1879 at...
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  • Fort Robinson (often referred to in contemporary documents as George Robinson's Fort or simply Robinson's Fort) was a stockaded blockhouse fort built...
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  • post commander at Fort Robinson, Lieutenant Colonel Luther P. Bradley, to carry out his order. Additional troops were brought in from Fort Laramie. On the...
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  • Captain Henry W. Wessells Jr. at Fort Robinson and are confined to a barracks. Archer's troops arrive at Fort Robinson as well, where Archer reunites Deborah...
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    son of Brigadier General Henry W. Wessells, his participation in the Fort Robinson breakout and his command of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment during the Battle...
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    surrendered at Fort Robinson in northwestern Nebraska a few Cheyenne chiefs and their people surrendered as well. The chiefs that surrendered at the fort were Dull...
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    hearing that the two brothers and Billy Clanton were preparing to come to Fort Worth, Texas to visit after selling their cattle. On screen Billy has been...
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    been involved in the murder of his old ally and rival, Crazy Horse, at Fort Robinson in Nebraska in 1877. Little Big Man was Crazy Horse's lieutenant and...
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    inside an armory at Fort Hood, Texas, on April 22, 2020, when she was bludgeoned to death by another soldier, Aaron David Robinson. Guillén had been missing...
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    Fort Robinson. The Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad reached Fort Robinson in 1886 on its way to Wyoming. Several miles east of the Fort,...
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    March (1876). McGillycuddy was appointed Assistant Post Surgeon at Fort Robinson in what became Nebraska. Because of his mustache that drooped to a length...
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    "Mattie". The first known record of Mattie's presence is a picture taken in Fort Scott in 1871. It's not known where she and Sarah spent the intervening time...
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    elders) surrendered and were taken to Fort Robinson, where subsequent events became known as the Fort Robinson tragedy. Dull Knife's group was first offered...
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    California Joe Milner (category Burials at Fort McPherson National Cemetery)
    trading with the Sioux between Fort Laramie and Fort Robinson. What happened next is unknown, but Newcomb arrived at Fort Robinson the next day claiming that...
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  • Omaha (see left) Omaha area NHLs Boys' Town USS Hazard Omaha Union Station Fort Atkinson Fort Robinson Leary Site Morton House George Norris House Palmer site Picotte Hospital...
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    at Fort Robinson without food or water. When the Cheyenne escaped on January 9, 1878, many died at US Army hands in the subsequent Fort Robinson massacre...
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    1891, and worked as a mail stage driver on the route between Willcox and Fort Grant. He may have worked briefly as a range detective for rancher Henry...
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    at Fort Robinson State Park, three miles west of Crawford, Nebraska on U.S. Route 20. The building served as a theater and gymnasium for the Fort Robinson...
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  • The epilogue text says that the last of the free Sioux surrendered at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, thirteen years later. Kevin Costner as Lt. John J. Dunbar/Dances...
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    Fort Huachuca is a United States Army installation, established on 3 March 1877 as Camp Huachuca. The garrison is now under the command of the United States...
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    center. Fort Robinson Hudson-Meng Bison Kill Nebraska National Forest Chadron State Park Trailside Museum of Natural History at Fort Robinson State Park...
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    Sitting Bull escaped to Canada. Within days, Crazy Horse surrendered at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. The Great Sioux War ended on May 7 with Miles' defeat of...
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    Buttes as the road passes through Fort Robinson State Park. The park is home to Fort Robinson, a former U.S. Army fort instrumental during the Sioux Wars...
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    a judge in Fort Worth, Texas, claimed that both Frank and Tom were planning to conduct business before leaving town to visit him in Fort Worth. Billy...
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    In response, the Mexican government eventually lowered tariffs and added forts along the border making cross-border rustling and smuggling less attractive...
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    more than two months. Garrett shot and killed Bonney, by then aged 21, in Fort Sumner on July 14, 1881. During the decades following his death, legends...
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  • Bibb Fort Bowyer Fort Carney Fort Claiborne Fort Condé, open to the public Fort Crawford Fort Dale Fort Decatur Fort Easley Fort Gaines Fort Glass Fort Hampton...
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    killed by Indians at Fort Harker. It also reports the death of one and the wounding of a second railroad man by Indians near Fort Harker (the two casualties...
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    Carroll & Graf Publishers, ISBN 978-0-7867-1170-3 Buecker, Thomas (2004). Fort Robinson and the American Century, 1900–1948. University of Oklahoma Press. p...
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