E of Fort Smith in Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Fort Smith, Montana. County/parish: Big Horn.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 10, 1975. NRIS 75000163.
6 contributing sites.Also known as:
Fort C. F. Smith was a military post established in the Powder River country by the United States Army in the southern portion of the Montana Territory on August 12, 1866, during Red Cloud's War. Established by order of Col. Henry B. Carrington, it was one of five forts proposed to protect the Bozeman Trail against the Oglala Lakota (Sioux), who saw the trail as a violation of the earlier 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie. The fort was abandoned two years later in 1868 and burned by the returning Sioux under Red Cloud.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71975644