Abstract

Fort Keogh was a military post near present-day Miles City, Montana. Records (1876-1893) consist of general and outgoing correspondence concerning supplies;subsistence stores ledger, inventories and invoices; abstracts of purchases and sales; ration certificates and returns; post orders for Fort Keogh, Fort Bliss, Fort Peck, Fort Buford, Fort Snelling, and Fort Meade; requisitions for supplies; and miscellaneous financial records, including purchases, accounts, funds, and payroll.

Abstract J.H. McKnight and Company operated as the post trader at Fort Shaw, Montana Territory, from 1870 to 1887. In 1887 Joseph McKnight moved his business to Great Falls, where it became a general mercantile firm. In 1894 the name was changed to J.H. McKnight Company, and it continued to operate under that name after McKnight's death in 1903 until its charter expired in 1914. Records (1865-1914) include interoffice, incoming, and outgoing correspondence; financial records; legal documents; and...