Jeff Barnes is a writer of the Great Plains and a former newspaper reporter, editor, public relations writer, and director of marketing for the Durham Museum in Omaha. He is the author of The Great Plains Guide to Custer and The Great Plains Guide to Buffalo Bill, among other books. Barnes resides in Omaha.

"Jeff Barnes has produced a comprehensive history guide to the Northern Plains forts, including extensive information for the traveler visiting each site. This is the premier book of its kind published to date."-Randy Kane, Nebraska History "This handy, well-thought-out guide is excellent for anyone who enjoys exploring the military history of the northern campaigns of the late 1800s."-Kansas History “Barnes has produced a valuable combination of history and travel guide for all students of the Northern Plains Indian Wars. A very timely, very impressive work.”-Robert M. Utley, author of The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas "Forts of the Northern Plains is a beautifully presented volume and will undoubtedly be an important addition to the study of Great Plains, military, and Indian Wars history for decades to come."-Erik J. Wright, True West “Well written and researched, [Forts of the Northern Plains] offers a handy, carefully organized summary of many important military sites in the West.”-Barton H. Barbour, Great Plains Quarterly “A much-needed, up-to-date guide to the critical forts of the Indian campaigns of the late nineteenth century. This book should be on the shelves of everyone with an interest in the West during this traumatic period of American history.”-Jerome A. Greene, author of Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis

• Forts of the Northern Plains: A MapIntroductionSite Ranking SystemForts of IowaCamp Kearny/Council Bluffs BlockhouseCamp McClellanFort Armstrong (Illinois)Fort AtkinsonFort CherokeeFort Crawford (Wisconsin)Fort CroghanFort DefianceFort Des Moines No. 1Fort Des Moines No. 2Fort DodgeFort EadsFort JohnOld Fort MadisonFort PetersonFort PurdyFort RobinsonSpirit Lake Fort and Spirit Lake StockadeForts of MinnesotaBig Kandiyohi Lake StockadeCamp LincolnCamp PopeCamp ReleaseCamp WatonwanFair Haven FortFirst Congregational ChurchForest City StockadeFort AlexandriaFort BelmontFort ChanyaskaFort CoxFort FairmountFort HanskaFort HolesFort JudsonFort JuelsonFort Lake JohannaFort PaynesvilleFort RidgelyFort RipleyFort SnellingGlencoe FortHutchinson StockadeMaine Prairie Corners FortNew Ulm DefensesNorway Lake Military PostOle Jorgenson’s StockadePike’s FortPomme de Terre StockadeRedwood StockadeSt. Joseph BlockhouseSauk Centre StockadeForts of MontanaCamp CookeFort AssiniboineFort BentonFort C. F. SmithFort CusterFort EllisFort FizzleFort KeoghFort LoganFort MaginnisFort MissoulaFort PeaseFort PeckFort ShawPowder River DepotForts of NebraskaCamp Clarke and BridgeCamp LookoutCamp SheridanFort AtkinsonFort ButlerFort GarberFort HartsuffOld Fort KearnyFort KearnyFort McPhersonFort MitchellFort NiobraraFort O. K.Fort OmahaFort RobinsonFort SidneyOmaha Quartermaster DepotPost MillalasPost North Platte StationPost Plum CreekPost South Loup ForkU.S. BlockhouseForts of North DakotaBad Lands CantonmentCamp HancockFort AbercrombieFort Abraham LincolnFort BufordFort DiltsFort PembinaFort RansomFort RiceFort SewardFort StevensonFort TottenFort UnionFort YatesSully’s Heart River CorralThe Sibley CampsCamp ArnoldCamp AtchisonCamp BuellCamp CorningCamp GrantCamp KimballCamp SheardownCamp WeiserCamp WhitneyForts of South DakotaCamp CollierCamp CollinsCamp EdwardsCamp SturgisCuster City StockadeCuster’s Permanent CampFort BruleFort DakotaFort JamesFort MeadeFort Pierre ChouteauFort RandallFort SissetonFort SodFort Sully No. 1Fort Sully No. 2Fort ThompsonGordon StockadeYankton StockadeForts of WyomingCamp BrownCamp CarlinCamp Cloud PeakCamp JenneyCantonment RenoDetachment at Bridger’s FerryDetachment at Deer Creek StationDetachment at Horseshoe Creek StationFort BonnevilleFort BridgerFort CasparFort D. A. RussellFort FettermanFort Fred SteeleFort Hat CreekFort LaramieFort McKinneyFort Phil KearnyFort RenoFort SandersFort StambaughFort SupplyFort ThompsonFort WashakieAcknowledgmentsBibliography

Jeff Barnes is a writer of the Great Plains and a former newspaper reporter, editor, public relations writer, and director of marketing for the Durham Museum in Omaha. He is the author of The Great Plains Guide to Custer and The Great Plains Guide to Buffalo Bill, among other books. Barnes resides in Omaha.

"Jeff Barnes has produced a comprehensive history guide to the Northern Plains forts, including extensive information for the traveler visiting each site. This is the premier book of its kind published to date."-Randy Kane, Nebraska History "This handy, well-thought-out guide is excellent for anyone who enjoys exploring the military history of the northern campaigns of the late 1800s."-Kansas History “Barnes has produced a valuable combination of history and travel guide for all students of the Northern Plains Indian Wars. A very timely, very impressive work.”-Robert M. Utley, author of The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas "Forts of the Northern Plains is a beautifully presented volume and will undoubtedly be an important addition to the study of Great Plains, military, and Indian Wars history for decades to come."-Erik J. Wright, True West “Well written and researched, [Forts of the Northern Plains] offers a handy, carefully organized summary of many important military sites in the West.”-Barton H. Barbour, Great Plains Quarterly “A much-needed, up-to-date guide to the critical forts of the Indian campaigns of the late nineteenth century. This book should be on the shelves of everyone with an interest in the West during this traumatic period of American history.”-Jerome A. Greene, author of Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis

• Forts of the Northern Plains: A MapIntroductionSite Ranking SystemForts of IowaCamp Kearny/Council Bluffs BlockhouseCamp McClellanFort Armstrong (Illinois)Fort AtkinsonFort CherokeeFort Crawford (Wisconsin)Fort CroghanFort DefianceFort Des Moines No. 1Fort Des Moines No. 2Fort DodgeFort EadsFort JohnOld Fort MadisonFort PetersonFort PurdyFort RobinsonSpirit Lake Fort and Spirit Lake StockadeForts of MinnesotaBig Kandiyohi Lake StockadeCamp LincolnCamp PopeCamp ReleaseCamp WatonwanFair Haven FortFirst Congregational ChurchForest City StockadeFort AlexandriaFort BelmontFort ChanyaskaFort CoxFort FairmountFort HanskaFort HolesFort JudsonFort JuelsonFort Lake JohannaFort PaynesvilleFort RidgelyFort RipleyFort SnellingGlencoe FortHutchinson StockadeMaine Prairie Corners FortNew Ulm DefensesNorway Lake Military PostOle Jorgenson’s StockadePike’s FortPomme de Terre StockadeRedwood StockadeSt. Joseph BlockhouseSauk Centre StockadeForts of MontanaCamp CookeFort AssiniboineFort BentonFort C. F. SmithFort CusterFort EllisFort FizzleFort KeoghFort LoganFort MaginnisFort MissoulaFort PeaseFort PeckFort ShawPowder River DepotForts of NebraskaCamp Clarke and BridgeCamp LookoutCamp SheridanFort AtkinsonFort ButlerFort GarberFort HartsuffOld Fort KearnyFort KearnyFort McPhersonFort MitchellFort NiobraraFort O. K.Fort OmahaFort RobinsonFort SidneyOmaha Quartermaster DepotPost MillalasPost North Platte StationPost Plum CreekPost South Loup ForkU.S. BlockhouseForts of North DakotaBad Lands CantonmentCamp HancockFort AbercrombieFort Abraham LincolnFort BufordFort DiltsFort PembinaFort RansomFort RiceFort SewardFort StevensonFort TottenFort UnionFort YatesSully’s Heart River CorralThe Sibley CampsCamp ArnoldCamp AtchisonCamp BuellCamp CorningCamp GrantCamp KimballCamp SheardownCamp WeiserCamp WhitneyForts of South DakotaCamp CollierCamp CollinsCamp EdwardsCamp SturgisCuster City StockadeCuster’s Permanent CampFort BruleFort DakotaFort JamesFort MeadeFort Pierre ChouteauFort RandallFort SissetonFort SodFort Sully No. 1Fort Sully No. 2Fort ThompsonGordon StockadeYankton StockadeForts of WyomingCamp BrownCamp CarlinCamp Cloud PeakCamp JenneyCantonment RenoDetachment at Bridger’s FerryDetachment at Deer Creek StationDetachment at Horseshoe Creek StationFort BonnevilleFort BridgerFort CasparFort D. A. RussellFort FettermanFort Fred SteeleFort Hat CreekFort LaramieFort McKinneyFort Phil KearnyFort RenoFort SandersFort StambaughFort SupplyFort ThompsonFort WashakieAcknowledgmentsBibliography

Jeff Barnes is a writer of the Great Plains and a former newspaper reporter, editor, public relations writer, and director of marketing for the Durham Museum in Omaha. He is the author of The Great Plains Guide to Custer and The Great Plains Guide to Buffalo Bill, among other books. Barnes resides in Omaha.

"Jeff Barnes has produced a comprehensive history guide to the Northern Plains forts, including extensive information for the traveler visiting each site. This is the premier book of its kind published to date."-Randy Kane, Nebraska History "This handy, well-thought-out guide is excellent for anyone who enjoys exploring the military history of the northern campaigns of the late 1800s."-Kansas History “Barnes has produced a valuable combination of history and travel guide for all students of the Northern Plains Indian Wars. A very timely, very impressive work.”-Robert M. Utley, author of The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas "Forts of the Northern Plains is a beautifully presented volume and will undoubtedly be an important addition to the study of Great Plains, military, and Indian Wars history for decades to come."-Erik J. Wright, True West “Well written and researched, [Forts of the Northern Plains] offers a handy, carefully organized summary of many important military sites in the West.”-Barton H. Barbour, Great Plains Quarterly “A much-needed, up-to-date guide to the critical forts of the Indian campaigns of the late nineteenth century. This book should be on the shelves of everyone with an interest in the West during this traumatic period of American history.”-Jerome A. Greene, author of Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis

• Forts of the Northern Plains: A MapIntroductionSite Ranking SystemForts of IowaCamp Kearny/Council Bluffs BlockhouseCamp McClellanFort Armstrong (Illinois)Fort AtkinsonFort CherokeeFort Crawford (Wisconsin)Fort CroghanFort DefianceFort Des Moines No. 1Fort Des Moines No. 2Fort DodgeFort EadsFort JohnOld Fort MadisonFort PetersonFort PurdyFort RobinsonSpirit Lake Fort and Spirit Lake StockadeForts of MinnesotaBig Kandiyohi Lake StockadeCamp LincolnCamp PopeCamp ReleaseCamp WatonwanFair Haven FortFirst Congregational ChurchForest City StockadeFort AlexandriaFort BelmontFort ChanyaskaFort CoxFort FairmountFort HanskaFort HolesFort JudsonFort JuelsonFort Lake JohannaFort PaynesvilleFort RidgelyFort RipleyFort SnellingGlencoe FortHutchinson StockadeMaine Prairie Corners FortNew Ulm DefensesNorway Lake Military PostOle Jorgenson’s StockadePike’s FortPomme de Terre StockadeRedwood StockadeSt. Joseph BlockhouseSauk Centre StockadeForts of MontanaCamp CookeFort AssiniboineFort BentonFort C. F. SmithFort CusterFort EllisFort FizzleFort KeoghFort LoganFort MaginnisFort MissoulaFort PeaseFort PeckFort ShawPowder River DepotForts of NebraskaCamp Clarke and BridgeCamp LookoutCamp SheridanFort AtkinsonFort ButlerFort GarberFort HartsuffOld Fort KearnyFort KearnyFort McPhersonFort MitchellFort NiobraraFort O. K.Fort OmahaFort RobinsonFort SidneyOmaha Quartermaster DepotPost MillalasPost North Platte StationPost Plum CreekPost South Loup ForkU.S. BlockhouseForts of North DakotaBad Lands CantonmentCamp HancockFort AbercrombieFort Abraham LincolnFort BufordFort DiltsFort PembinaFort RansomFort RiceFort SewardFort StevensonFort TottenFort UnionFort YatesSully’s Heart River CorralThe Sibley CampsCamp ArnoldCamp AtchisonCamp BuellCamp CorningCamp GrantCamp KimballCamp SheardownCamp WeiserCamp WhitneyForts of South DakotaCamp CollierCamp CollinsCamp EdwardsCamp SturgisCuster City StockadeCuster’s Permanent CampFort BruleFort DakotaFort JamesFort MeadeFort Pierre ChouteauFort RandallFort SissetonFort SodFort Sully No. 1Fort Sully No. 2Fort ThompsonGordon StockadeYankton StockadeForts of WyomingCamp BrownCamp CarlinCamp Cloud PeakCamp JenneyCantonment RenoDetachment at Bridger’s FerryDetachment at Deer Creek StationDetachment at Horseshoe Creek StationFort BonnevilleFort BridgerFort CasparFort D. A. RussellFort FettermanFort Fred SteeleFort Hat CreekFort LaramieFort McKinneyFort Phil KearnyFort RenoFort SandersFort StambaughFort SupplyFort ThompsonFort WashakieAcknowledgmentsBibliography