1909 Brick Barracks

The remount men who bunked here served the largest depot of its kind in the world. Fort Robinson became a Quartermaster Remount Depot in 1919, receiving, conditioning and issuing horses to mounted units and placing remount stallions with civilian breeders. By 1943 some 12,000 horses were on the reservation, and by the end of World War II nearly 10,000 mules had been trained or issued. Retired racehorses stood at the depot, the U.S. Olympic equestrian team trained here in the 1930s, and remount officers hunted coyotes with stag hounds as the Soldier Creek Hunt Club.

What the plaque says

1909 Brick Barracks Of the fifteen enlisted men's barracks of log, adobe, or fired brick, only this structure remains at Fort Robinson. It housed men of the 8th and 12th Cavalry and the Quartermaster Remount Service. A similar structure near the brick officers' homes at the west end of the parade ground was torn down after Fort Robinson was abandoned. In 1956 the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission adapted the building to lodging for visitors and provided for its preservation. Nebraska State Historical Society

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Robinson State Park — steps away
  The army post beside the Red Cloud Agency where Crazy Horse was bayoneted in 1877 and Morning Star's Northern Cheyenne broke out into the January cold of 1879.
• Toadstool Geologic Park — 14 mi
  A pocket of badlands in the Oglala National Grassland where sandstone caps balance on clay stems, ancient tracks cross the rock, and a trail leads on to a 10,000-year-old bison bone bed.
• Agate Fossil Beds National Monument — 22 mi
  A fossil quarry on the Niobrara that also keeps the gifts Red Cloud and other Lakota and Cheyenne visitors gave the ranching family who were their friends for thirty-five years.

More markers nearby

• Post Headquarters, 1905 — steps away
• Flagstaff, 1890 — steps away
• Officers' Row, 1874-1875 — steps away
• 1887 Barracks Row — steps away