"Poland's Ford, Little Missouri River, D. T."

Series of drawings, negative Numbers 56734-741, all appear to be scenes in the area around Fort Abraham Lincoln, which is about five miles from the present site of Bismark, North Dakota, on the west bank of the Missouri River. It was first built in 1872 to protect construction crews of the Northern Pacific Railroad. In 1891 it was abandoned. Information from F. P. Prucha, Guide to the Military Posts of the United States, Milwaukee, 1964, page 55. Artist: [Lt Col John Scraggs Poland, U. S. A.]