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Title: Fort Leavenworth, Military Band
Description: Military band standing at attendtion in front of one of the homes at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Signed, "Yours Trully [sic] Nichols" Handwritten on the back in ink, "To H. C. Keeling/From/[? ?] R Nichols."
Date: 1880~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fort Leavenworth, Military Band
Description: Group photograph of a military band at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, standing at attention outside in front of the barracks.
Date: 1880~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fort Leavenworth
Description: Army men of varying ranks in the band and the rifle corps at attention on lawn in front the barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Date: 1880~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fort Leavenworth, Residence
Description: A group of men in military uniform stand outside the front of a residence. Women and children are on the balcony of the second storey. Handwritten in pencil on the back, top right corner, "150 I."
Date: 1880~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fort Leavenworth, Residence
Description: A house located in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with four boys, two girls, and two women seated on the porch. Written in pencil on the back, "260 I/Capt. Huf?'s/Fort."
Date: 1880~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fort Leavenworth, Residence
Description: Unidentified man and woman standing on the porch of a house in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Handwritten in pencil on the back top right corner, "273 I."
Date: 1880~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fort Leavenworth, Row of Houses
Description: Row of houses in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where officers' families resided. Signed on the front, "Yours Truly/Nichols" Handwritten on the back in ink, "To H. C. Keeling/from/yours Truly/C. A. Russy Nichols."
Date: 1880~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fort Leavenworth Residence
Description: A family sits on the stairs and porch of a house in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Written on the back in pencil, "269 I/Lieut Guard/To be shown Capt. Vauer."
Date: 1880~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: James Bridger, the Greatest Rocky Mountain Scout
Description: Biographical article about Jim Bridger, "the uncrowned king of all the Rocky Mountain scouts of half a century ago." The author relates his experiences traveling in the West and Southwest with Bridger in the 1860s as a soldier with the Eleventh Ohio Cavalry at Fort Laramie and back to Fort Kearny. A brief but detailed biographical history of Jim Bridger is also given from the author's recollections, including Bridger's physical description and his life as a mountain scout, said to have started when he left his home in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1822.
Date: 1916-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Fort Osage
Description: Photo and history of Fort Osage, "the first United States government outpost in Louisiana Territory," selected for its site on the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804 and established in 1808, supervised by William Clark, located near Sibley, Missouri, and restored in 1948.
Date: 1987
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Fort Wallace and Its Relation to the Frontier
Description: According to the article, "Fort Wallace was the last and most western military post of any permanency in Kansas." It was established in September of 1865 near Pond's Creek Station on the Butterfield Overland Despatch route to Denver. Various quotes from other sources are included as well as extensive information about the fort, the Indians and pioneers and the Smoky Hill route. Includes numerous illustrations.
Date: 1926/1928
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Pierre Chouteau, Jr. and Company
Description: There are numerous references in the book to the Chouteau family and in particular Pierre Chouteau, Jr. and his involvement in the fur trade on the upper Missouri River. The focus of the book is the history of Fort Union, a fort of the Upper Missouri Outfit. The working arrangements between the Indians and fur traders early on is contrasted between the later dealings of the Indians with the U.S. government and the military.
Date: 2001
Object Type: Book

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