Camp Cooke.

The article discusses the history of Camp Cooke, a U.S. Army post founded in 1866 in the Montana Territory. The author explains that the camp was founded to protect white settlers from possible attacks from the area's Blackfoot and Crow Indians and housed the soldiers and officers of the First Battalion of the U.S. Army's Thirteenth Infantry Regiment. Criticism over the remote location of the outpost is explained, as are soldiers' everyday lives while stationed there. Violent confrontations between soldiers and Native Americans in the vicinity of the outpost and soldiers' alcoholism are explained as well. Other topics discussed include military desertion, problems with paying soldiers, and the command of Major William Clinton.