Fort Yellowstone (initially established as Camp Sheridan (1886)) was established as a permanent U.S. Army post at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park in 1891. In August, 1886 the U.S. Department of the Interior transfered administration of the park to the War Department and General Philip Sheridan ordered the U.S. Army to take control of the park. The Army established Fort Yellowstone as a permanent post and remained in control of the park until 1916 when it was transfered to the National Park Service.
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Famous quotes containing the word fort:
“‘Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)