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| [[Category:North Dakota Forts]]
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| [[Category:Dakota-Montana Trail]]
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| [[Image:Fort Buford Plan 1874.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Fort Buford Plan, 1874]]
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| '''Fort Buford (1866-1895)''' - Construction began on Fort Buford on 15 Jun 1866 by soldiers under the command of Bvt. Lt. Col. [[William G. Rankin]] in the Dakota Territory near present day Williston, North Dakota. The Fort was named after Maj. Gen. [[John F. Buford]], hero of Gettysburg, who died from typhoid fever in 1863. Initially the fort consisted of a 360-foot-square stockade, with log and adobe buildings. It was constructed as a single company garrison to protect immigrant travel routes.
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| The fort was expanded in 1867 to house a total of 5 companies. The expanded fort was 999 feet by 600 feet and was enclosed on three sides by a twelve-foot stockade. Faulty construction necessitated a third construction phase and the fort was expanded to house 6 companies.
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| The Sioux Wars of 1876-1879 resulted in Custer's defeat at the Little Bighorn and Sitting Bull's flight into Canada. [[Sitting Bull]] return to Dakota Territory in 1881 and traveled to Fort Buford where he surrendered on 20 Jul 1881 to Major [[D.H. Brotherton]], Fort Buford's commander.
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| After [[Sitting Bull]]'s surrender, Fort Buford protected survey and construction crews of the Great Northern Railway and policed the area against outlaws and wayward indians. It was abandoned on 1 Oct 1895.
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| ==Current Status==
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| The North Dakota State Historical Society runs [http://www.state.nd.us/hist/buford/buford.htm Fort Buford State Historical Site].
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| Three original buildings still stand at the site: the stone powder magazine, wood-frame officers' quarters, and a wood-frame officer of the guard building.
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| <googlemap lat="47.987653" lon="-103.999822" zoom="16" width="500" scale="yes" overview="yes" controls="large">
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| 47.987294, -104.000123, Fort Buford<br>(1866-1895)
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| </googlemap>
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| '''Location:'''
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| 15349 39th Ln. NW, Williston, ND 58801
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| {{Mapit-US-cityscale|47.987294|-104.000123}}
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| * Elevation: 1900'
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| |}
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| '''Links:'''
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| * [http://www.state.nd.us/hist/buford/buford.htm Fort Buford State Historical Site]
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| * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Buford Wikipedia]
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| '''Publications:'''
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| '''Sources:'''
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| * Field, Ron, ''[[Forts of the American Frontier 1820-91|Forts of the American Frontier 1820-91: Central and Northern Plains]]'', Osprey Publishing, Elms Court, Chapel Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 9LP, United Kingdom, 2005, ISBN: 1 84176 775 1
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| '''Visited:''' No
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| ==Picture Gallery==
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