"From These Considerations, And My Own Personal Observations, I
Am, Therefore, Disposed To Believe That Two Posts Established By
The
Government, one at the mouth of the Yellowstone River, and
one on the Arkansas, would completely protect all our people
In
every section of the great wilderness of the West; while other
advantages, at least with regard to one of them, confirm and urge
the suggestion. A fort at the mouth of the Yellowstone,
garrisoned by fifty men would be perfectly safe. The
establishment might be constructed simply with a view to the
stores, stables for the dragoons' horses, and quarters for the
regular garrison; the rest being provided with sheds or lodges,
erected in the vicinity, for their residence during the winter
months."
End of Astoria, by Washinton Irving
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