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The USDA facility that occupies part of Fort Reno is the Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center, previously Grazinglands Research Laboratory, which Lucas has called “one of the ...
Fort Reno was established near the Darlington Agency in 1874, at the insistence of Agent John Miles, to pacify the Arapaho and Cheyenne who had already settled there. At first, Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th Cavalry were dispatched from Fort Sill to establish an installation called “Camp Near the Cheyenne Agency.”
Fort Reno began as a temporary camp in July 1874 near the Darlington Agency, which needed protection from an Indian uprising that eventually led to the Red River War.After the conflict ended, the post remained to control and protect the Southern Cheyenne and Southern Arapaho reservation, and Fort Reno was established as a permanent fort on July 15, 1874. [3]
Black Jack was the last of the Quartermaster–issue horses branded with the Army's U.S. brand (on the left shoulder) and his Army serial number 2V56 (on the left side of his neck), [3] as the horse breeding program at Fort Reno was transferred from the U.S. Department of Defense to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in May 1947 with ...
Fort Reno. Established in 1875, Historic Fort Reno includes several structures and a museum featuring a wide display of artifacts, photographs, images of the 1888 Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency ...
They accepted a reservation with the Cheyenne in Indian Territory, so both tribes were forced to remove south near Fort Reno at the Darlington Agency in present-day Oklahoma. [2] The Dawes Act broke up the Cheyenne-Arapaho land base. All land not allotted to individual Indians was opened to settlement in the Land Run of 1892.
Evolving from both the Remount Service of the Quartermaster Corps and a general horse-breeding program under the control of the Department of Agriculture, the Remount Service began systematically breeding horses for the United States Cavalry in 1918. It remained in operation until 1948, when all animal-breeding programs returned to Department ...
Fort Reno may refer to any of the three United States Army posts named for General Jesse L. Reno: Fort Reno Park, in Washington, D.C., established 1862 (originally Fort Pennsylvania) Fort Reno (Oklahoma), in present-day Oklahoma, established during the Indian Wars, July 1874; Fort Reno (Wyoming), in present-day Wyoming on the Bozeman Trail ...