Camp Crook

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Dates used: 1890

Location of Fort: Lame Deer, MT

Use: Military

GPS  N: 45-37.

         W: 106-40.

Camp Crook was established on April 14, 1890 on a site near the old Tongue River Agency by Major Henry Carroll.  It was intended to protect the Indian Agent and public property there.  The post was abandoned in November 1890.

For more information see:

American Forts Network (internet)

Encyclopedia of Historic Forts

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