Fort Robinson: Outpost on the Plains

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Roger T. Grange

Listed below are the sources found most useful in preparing this account.

Books

Bourke, John G. On the Border with Crook. London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1892.

Brady, Cyrus T. Indian Fights and Fighters. Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913.

Bronson, Edgar B. Reminiscences of a Ranchman. New York: McClure Co., 1908.

Bruce, Robert. The Fighting Norths and Pawnee Scouts. Privately printed, c. 1932.

Carter, William H. The History of Fort Robinson. Crawford, Nebr.: Northwest Nebraska News, 1942.

Clark, William P. The Indian Sign Language. Philadelphia: L. R. Hamersly, 1885.

DeBarthe, Joseph. The Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard. St. Joseph, Mo.: Combe Printing Co., c. 1894.

Flannery, L. G. (ed.) Volume I, John Hunton’s Diary, 1873-75. Lingle, Wyo.: Guide-Review, c. 1956.

Forrest, Earle R. and Milner, Joe E. California Joe. Caldwell, I.: Caxton Printers, 1935.

Grinnell, George Bird. The Fighting Cheyennes. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1915.

——. Two Great Scouts and Their Pawnee Battalion. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1928.

Hafen, Leroy R. and Young, Francis M. Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890. Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1938.

Hyde, George E. Red Cloud’s Folk, A History of the Oglala Sioux Indians. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1937.

Lawson, Laurin L. Souvenir History of Fort Robinson. Crawford, Nebr.: Northwest Nebraska News, 1930.

McGillycuddy, Julia Blanchard. McGillicuddy Agent, A Biography of Dr. Valentine T. McGillicuddy. Stanford University, Calif: Stanford University Press, c. 1941.

Mills, Anson. My Story. Washington, D. C.: Published by the author, 1918.

Sandoz, Mari. Cheyenne Autumn. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., c. 1953.

——. Crazy Horse, the Strange Man of the Oglalas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.

——. Old Jules. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1935.

Schmitt, Martin F. (ed.) General George Crook, His Autobiography. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1946.

Periodicals and Newspapers

Nebraska History, a Quarterly Magazine. Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society, 1918——.

Allen, Charles W., “Red Cloud and the U. S. Flag,” XXII, No. 1 (January-March, 1941), 77-88.

Brininstool, E . A., et al. “Chief Crazy Horse, His Career and Death,” XII, No. 1 (January-March, 1929), 4-78.
Burns, Robert H. “The Newman Ranches, Pioneer Cattle Ranches of the West,” XXXIV, No. 1 (March, 1953), 21-32.
Cook, James H. “Early Days in Ogallala,” XIV, No. 2 (April-June, 1933), 86-99.
Mahnken, Norbert R. “The Sidney-Black Hills Trail,” XXX, No. 3 (September, 1948), 203-225.
Mattison, Ray H. “The Army Post on the Northern Plains, 1865-1885,” XXXV, No. 1 (March, 1954), 17-43.
——. “The Indian Reservation System on the Upper Missouri, 1865-1890,” XXXVI, No. 3 (September, 1955), 141-172.
Unthank, O. B. “Red Cloud Agency and Fort Laramie, 1867-1874,” VII, No. 1 (January-March, 1924), 27-29.
Wight, Willard E. (ed.) “A Young Medical Officer’s Letters From Fort Robinson and Fort Leavenworth, 1906-1907,” XXXVII, No. 2 (June, 1956), 135-147.
Wilson, Everett P. “The Story of the Oglala and Brule Sioux in the Pine Ridge Country of Northwest Nebraska in the Middle Seventies,” XXII, No. 1 (January-March, 1941), 15-32.

Bourke, John G. “Mackenzie’s Last Fight with the Cheyennes,” Journal of the Military Service Institution, XI, No. 42 (January, 1890), 29-49; No. 43 (March, 1890), 198-221.

Northwest Nebraska News (Crawford, Nebr.), June 18, 1936.

Omaha Weekly Bee (Omaha, Nebr.), 1874-1878.

Documents

Baker, Marvel L., Johnson, Leslie E., and Davis, Russell L., “Beef Cattle Research at Fort Robinson,” University of Nebraska College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, Miscellaneous Publication No. 1, April, 1952.

Brackett, Albert G., “The Sioux or Dakota Indians,” Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1877, Senate Miscellaneous Documents, No. 46, 44th Congress, 2d. Session.

Report of the Secretary of War (1875), House Executive Documents, No. 1, Part 2, 44th Congress, 1st Session.

Report of the Secretary of War for 1879, House Executive Documents, No. 1, Part 2, 46th Congress, 2d. Session.

Reports on Indian Arms, Annual Report of the Chief of Ordnance for 1879, Appendix V. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1879.

U. S. National Archives, Microfilm, Nebraska State Historical Society

U. S. War Department

Camp Sheridan, Nebraska:

Orders, 1874-1881
Letters Sent, 1874-1875
Letters Received, 1874

Medical History of Camp Sheridan, Nebraska, 1874-1881
Post Returns, Camp Sheridan, Nebraska, January 1876-April 1881

Fort Robinson:

Selected Letters Sent, 1884-1900, Record Group 98
Selected Post Orders, 1874-1897, Record Group 98
Selected Documents from Medical History of Post, Record Group 98
Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, Document File 563-AGO-1874, Record Group 94
Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, Document File 4163 (Sioux War)—1876, Record Group 94
Records of U. S. Army Commands, Selected Documents, Sioux Expedition, 1874, Record Group 98

Bureau of Indian Affairs:

Letters Received, Red Cloud Agency, 1871-1880, Record Group 75
Selected Documents, Letters Received, Spotted Tail Agency 1875-1880. Letters Sent, Spotted Tail Agency, 1865-1881, Record Group 75

Manuscripts

Eli S. Ricker Collection: Interviews, Statements, Letters, Notes, Mss., Nebraska State Historical Society

Notebook kept by Dr. V. T. McGillycuddy, M.D., while a member of the Yellowstone and Big Horn Expedition May 26 to December 13, 1876 and notes kept by his wife Fanny at Camp Robinson December 13, 1876-February 22, 1877 and with the army on an expedition to the Black Hills, February 23-April 11, 1877, typed copy, Nebraska State Historical Society.

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