Fort McKinney (Wyo.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Geographic subdivision usage: Wyoming Fort McKinney
Variant(s): Cantonment Reno (Wyo.)
McKinney, Fort (Wyo.)
Reno, Cantonment (Wyo.)
See also: Fortification --Wyoming
Found in: Work cat.: NUCMC data from Wyoming St. Archives for Osborne, J.E. Papers, 1893-1895 (Fort McKinney)
Encyc. of historic forts, 1988: p. 860 (Wyoming: Fort McKinney (Cantonment Reno); depot est. Oct. 12, 1876 by Capt. Edwin Pollock, located 3 miles south of abandoned Fort Reno; became military center for control of Indians in the cattle raising country east of the Big Horn Mts.; abandoned on Nov. 7, 1894, the post’s buildings and a portion of the reservation were transferred to the state of Wyo.)
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Guide to the Arthur Ernest Hatheway Fort McKinney Collection
Collection — Box 296
Identifier: H71-26
Abstract
Two printed affidavits by Arthur Ernest Hatheway and Attorney Charles H. Burritt regarding the former’s arrest at Big Horn City and confinement at Fort McKinney.
Dates:
1885