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Fort Reno also known as Fort Connor or Old Fort Reno, was a wooden fort established on August 15, 1865 by the United States Army in Dakota Territory in present-day Johnson County, Wyoming. The fort was built to protect travelers on the Bozeman Trail from Native American tribes .
Fort Reno may refer to any of the three United States Army posts named for General Jesse L. Reno: Fort Reno Park, in Washington, D.C., established 1862 (originally Fort Pennsylvania) Fort Reno (Oklahoma), in present-day Oklahoma, established during the Indian Wars, July 1874; Fort Reno (Wyoming), in present-day Wyoming on the Bozeman Trail ...
Fort Reno began as a temporary camp in July 1874 near the Darlington Agency, which needed protection from an Indian uprising that eventually led to the Red River War.After the conflict ended, the post remained to control and protect the Southern Cheyenne and Southern Arapaho reservation, and Fort Reno was established as a permanent fort on July 15, 1874. [3]
The log fort and stockade is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. History of artillery and air defense Fort Sill in Lawton includes another historic site built in the 19th century.
Powder River Crossing was a civilian settlement that grew up on the Bozeman Trail, across the Powder River from Cantonment Reno.Cantonment Reno was established in late 1876, three miles upstream from the site of Fort Reno, a fort that was established in 1865 and abandoned in 1868 under the terms of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868.
Cantonment Reno also known as Fort McKinney 1 was a US Army post or cantonment located on the Powder River near the old Bozeman Trail crossing. A previous fort near the site had been abandoned and burned after the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. [2] Cantonment Reno was re-established in late 1876, just upstream of the site of old Fort Reno.
Similar to Fort Reno and Fort C. F. Smith it was built in Crow treaty land and accepted by these Indians. Carrington and his caravan reached Fort Reno on June 28, and left two companies (about 100 men) there to relieve the two companies of the 5th U.S. Volunteers (nicknamed the " Galvanized Yankees "), who had garrisoned the fort over the winter.
The name Fort McKinney was first given to a military post previously named Cantonment Reno, located on the Powder River near the old Bozeman Trail crossing. Near this site on the Bozeman Trail Fort Connor (renamed Fort Reno) had been constructed in 1865, but was abandoned after the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie. The tribes promptly burned the fort.