This includes Fort Robinson and the site of the second Red Cloud Agency (about 1.5 mi (2.4 km) to the east).

The war chief Crazy Horse surrendered at the fort along with his 1,100 followers on May 6, 1877,[6] and on September 5 that year, he was killed there while resisting imprisonment.

In January 1879, Chief Morning Star (also known as Dull Knife) led the Northern Cheyenne in an outbreak from the Agency.

Because the Cheyenne had refused to return to Indian Territory, where they believed conditions were too adverse for them to survive, the army had been holding and starving them of food, water and heat during the severe winter.

U.S. soldiers hunted down the escapees, killing men, women, and children in the Fort Robinson massacre.

In 1885, the 9th Cavalry Regiment, nicknamed the Buffalo Soldiers by Native Americans, was stationed at Fort Robinson.

[10] During World War II, the fort was the site of a K-9 corps training center and a German prisoner-of-war camp.

[11] The U.S. Army decided to abandon Fort Robinson in 1947; in the following year, it transferred the property to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), for its Beef Cattle Research Station.

Exhibits focus on the fort's history, including its role guarding the Red Cloud Agency from 1874 to 1877, up through the housing of World War II German POWs from 1943 to 1946.