List of Historic Forts of the American West

OLD WEST LEGENDS

List of Old West Forts

There are literally hundreds of Old West forts across the American West, ranging from military posts, to fortresses established by fur trading companies, to private enterprises built solely to protect the pioneers within. Though many of these old forts are long gone, there are dozens of others that continue to stand, some restored and some in ruins, across the vast west.

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"Fort Laramie is one of the posts established

by the American Fur Company, who

well-nigh monopolized the Indian trade

of this whole region. "

-- Francis Parkman

Fort Griffin, Texas Administration Building, June, 2007, Kathy Weiser.

This image available for photographic prints

and downloads HERE!

Arizona
Camp Crittenden Camp Date Creek Camp Hualapai Fort Apache Fort Breckinridge (old Camp Grant) Fort Buchanan Fort Bowie	Fort Buchanan Fort Defiance Fort Goodwin Fort Grant Fort Lowell Fort Huachuca Fort Lowell Fort McDowell	Fort Meeks/Lee's Ferry Fort Mojave Fort Thomas Fort Tucson Fort Verde Fort Whipple San Xavier del Bac Mission
Arkansas
Fort Chaffee	Fort Logan H. Roots	Fort Smith
California
Benicia Arsenal Camp Yerba Buena Drum Barracks El Presidio De Santa Barbara Fort Alcatraz Fort Baker Fort Bidwell Fort Bragg	Fort Crook Fort Guijarros Fort Humboldt Fort MacArthur Fort Mason Fort McDowell (Angel Island) Fort Point Fort Reading	Fort Rosecrans Fort Ross Fort Tejon Fort Yuma Presidio of Monterey Presidio of San Diego Presidio de San Francisco Presidio Of Sonoma Sutter's Fort
Colorado
Bent's Old Fort Bent's New Fort Fort Collins Fort Garland Fort Logan	Fort Lyon (Fort Wise) Fort Massachusetts Fort Morgan Fort Pueblo	Fort Sedgwick Fort St. Vrain Fort Uncompahgre Fort Vasquez
Idaho
Fort Boise	Fort Hall
Illinois
Apple River Fort Fort Armstrong Fort Beggs Fort de Chartres	Fort Crèvecoeur Fort Dearborn Fort Defiance	Fort Johnson Fort Lamotte Fort Massac
Kansas
Camp Ewing Cantonment Martin Fort Atkinson Fort Aubrey Fort Bain Fort Belmont Fort Blair (Baxter) Fort Brooks Fort Cavagnial Fort Clifton Fort Dodge Fort Downer Fort Hamilton	Fort Harker Fort Hays Fort Henning Fort Insley Fort Jewell Fort Kanses Fort Lane Fort Larned Fort Leavenworth Fort Lincoln Fort Mann Fort Montgomery (Greenwood County)	Fort Montgomery (Linn County) Fort Monument Fort Riley Fort Saunders Fort Scott Fort Titus Fort Wakarusa Fort Wallace Fort Zarah
Missouri
Cape Girardeau Forts Fort Belle Fontaine Fort Cap-Au-Gris Fort Carondelet Fort Charette Fort de Cavagnal	Fort Davidson Fort Hovey (Curtis) Fort Leonard Wood Fort Orleans Fort Osage (Clark) Fort Zumwalt	Jefferson Barracks Joseph Robideaux' Trading Post Liberty Arsenal St. Louis Arsenal
Montana
Cantonment Jordan Cantonment Wright Fort Alexander Fort Assiniboine #1 Fort Assinniboine Fort Belknap Fort Benton Fort Browning Fort Campbell Fort Carroll Fort Cass Fort Chardon Fort Claggett (Camp Cooke) Fort Connah Fort Conrad Fort Copelin Fort Cotton Fort Custer Fort Dauphin	Fort Ellis Fort Fizzle Fort Fox & Livingston Fort Galpin Fort Gilbert Fort William Henry Harrison Fort Hawley Fort Henry Fort Howes Fort Jackson Fort Janeaux Fort Keogh Fort LaBarge Fort Lewis Fort Logan Fort Maginnis Fort McKenzie Fort Missoula	Fort Owen Fort Parker Fort Pease Fort Peck Fort Piegan Fort Sarpy Fort Sarpy II Fort Shaw Fort C.F. Smith Fort Van Buren Fort William Fort Yellowstone Howe's House Judith Landing Kootenai Post Lewis and Clark Fort Reed's Fort Saleesh House
Nebraska
Camp Sheridan Fontenelle's Post Fort Atkinson Fort Calhoun Fort Crook	Fort Hartsuff Fort John Fort Kearny Fort Lisa Fort McPherson	Fort Mitchell Fort Omaha Fort Robidoux Fort Robinson Fort Sidney
Nevada
Camp McGarry Fort Churchill	Fort Halleck	Fort Schellbourne
New Mexico
Fort Bascom Fort Bayard Fort Burgwin Fort Craig Fort Cummings	Fort Defiance Fort Fillmore Fort Marcy Fort Seldon	Fort Stanton Fort Sumner Fort Union Fort Wingate
North Dakota
Fort Abercrombie Fort Abraham Lincoln Fort Berthold Fort Buford	Fort Clark Fort Ransom Fort Rice Fort Mandan	Fort Stevenson Fort Totten Fort Yates Fort Union
Oklahoma
Camp Nichols Fort Arbuckle Fort Cobb Fort Davis	Fort El Reno Fort Gibson Fort McCulloch Fort Sill	Fort Supply Fort Towson Fort Washita Fort Wayne
Oregon
Fort Astoria Fort Clatsop Fort Columbia Fort Colville Fort Dalles/Fort Lee Fort Dent Fort Harney	Fort Henrietta Fort Klamath Fort Lawton Fort Lewis Fort Nez Perce Fort Nisqually Fort Okanogan	Fort Simcoe Fort Stevens Fort Townsend Fort Ward Fort Worden Fort George Wright
South Dakota
Fort Bennett Fort Dakota Fort Hale Fort James Fort Kiowa	Fort Lookout Fort Meade Fort Pierre Fort Randall	Fort Sisseton Fort Sully Fort Thompson Whetstone Agency
Texas
The Alamo Camp Cooper Camp Cureton Camp Holland Camp Hudson Camp Verde Fort Anahuac Fort Belknap Fort Bend Fort Bliss Fort Brown Fort Buffalo Springs Fort Chadbourne Fort Cibolo Fort Clark Fort Colorado Fort Concho Fort Crockett Fort Croghan Fort Davis Fort Duncan Fort Elliott Fort Esperanza Fort Ewell Fort Fisher Fort Gates Fort Graham Fort Grigsby Fort Griffin Fort Hancock Fort Henderson	Fort Hood Fort Houston (Anderson County) Fort Sam Houston Fort Inge Fort Inglish Fort Lancaster Fort Leaton Fort Lincoln Fort Lipantitlan Fort Lyday Fort Maison Rouge Fort Martin Scott Fort Mason Fort McIntosh Fort McKavett Fort Merrill Fort Milam Fort Parker Fort Pena Fort Phantom Hill Fort Polk Fort Quitman Fort Richardson Fort Ringgold Fort D. A. Russell Fort Sabine Fort Saint Louis Fort San Jacinto Fort Stockton	Fort Stubblefield Fort Tenoxtitlan Fort Terán Fort Travis Fort Trevino Fort Worth Fortin de la Cienega Jowell Family Fort Lacy's Fort Little River Fort Moore's Fort Presidio de la Bahía del Espíritu Santo Presidio de la Virgen de los Dolores de los Tejas Presidio de San Agustín de Ahumada Presidio de San Antonio de Béjar Presidion de San Elizario Presidio de San Xavier de Gigedo Presidio Nuestra Señora de Loreto de la Bahia (Fort Defiance, Fort Goliad) Presidio de San Saba Princess Sophia's Fort
Utah
Camp Floyd Cove Fort Fort Buenaventura	Fort Buenaventura	Fort Deseret Fort Douglas	Fort Duchesne Fort Utah
Washington
American Camp-English Camp Fort Astoria Fort Clatsop Fort Columbia Fort Hoskins	Fort Nisqually Fort Okanogan Fort Spokane Fort Steilacoom Fort Stevens	Fort Townsend Fort William Fort Vancouver Fort Walla Walla Fort Yamhill
Wyoming
Fort Bonneville Fort Bridger Fort Caspar Fort Clay Fort Fetterman Fort H.W. Halleck	Fort Laramie Fort McKinney Fort Phil Kearny Fort Platte Fort Reno Fort Russell	Fort Sanders Fort Stambaugh Fort Fred Steele Fort Washakie (Camp Brown)
The Old States - Back East
Maryland Fort McHenry	South Carolina Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter

Many people are not aware that Alcatraz was a fort before it became a Penitentiary. Photo by

John Sullivan, March, 2005.

This image available for photographic prints and downloads HERE!

Fort Caspar, Wyoming living quarters, Kathy Weiser, September, 2009.

Fort Verde, Arizona, April, 2007, Kathy Weiser.

Vintage Fort Bayard, New Mexico

Fort Sumter, South Carolina 1901,

Detroit Photographic.

This image available for photographic prints and downloads HERE!

Fort El Reno , Oklahoma Commissary and Weapons Magazine, November,

2005, Kathy Weiser. This image available for photographic prints and

downloads HERE!

Old Bedlam at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, Kathy Weiser, September, 2009.

Fort Yellowstone, Montana

Fort Kearny, Nebraska by William Henry Jackson.

Fort Laramie, Wyoming is one of the most intact frontier forts in the West. Kathy Weiser, September, 2009.

Compiled Kathy Weiser/Legends of America, updated January, 2011.

Also See:

Forts of the American West

Explorers, Trappers, Traders & Mountain Men

In A Trapper's Bivouac

Haunted Forts Across the American West

Soldiers & Officers in American History

Trading Posts and Their Stories

Trading Posts of the Fur Trade

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