[Illustration: Lady and escort out for a ride on Christmas, 1896.] [Illustration: Escort wagon train, Fort Robinson.] [Illustration: Guardhouse prisoners work detail, March 1898.] [Illustration: Social calls were important. On porch of officers’ quarters are: Commanding Officer, Colonel James Biddle, far left. Captain Philip Pendleton Powell, right, standing.] [Illustration: A mock battle formation, 10th U. S. Cavalry (Negro).] [Illustration: Yearlings at the Fort Robinson Remount Depot, September 20, 1932.] [Illustration: Master Sergeant Wm. C. Meyers taking a jump at the Fort Robinson Remount Depot.] [Illustration: Mixed team of officers and enlisted men fighting it out on the polo field after hours.] [Illustration: Field Artillery with model 1897 French 75 mm. field piece.] [Illustration: Review parade at Fort Robinson German Prisoner of War Camp, World War II.] [Illustration: Troops crawling under machine gun fire during training, World War II.] [Illustration: Training the K-9 (Dog) Corps, World War II. Courtesy of U.S. Army.] [Illustration: Glen Field. Troops prepare to leave Fort Robinson, World War II.] [Illustration: More than 2,000 students and adults attended the first annual Fort Robinson School Field Day, April 26, 1974.] In August 1889 a Camp of Instruction was held at Fort Robinson. This event attracted a great deal of attention because it involved the assembly at the post of all troops in the Department of the Platte. The vast encampment was organized by General Brooke under the direction of General Crook, then commanding the Military Division of the Missouri. Training for the 102 officers and 2,155 enlisted men began on August 20 and lasted for one month. The fifty-eight participating companies came from eleven different posts in the Department and consisted of the Ninth Cavalry, the Fifth Artillery and the Second, Seventh, Eighth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Twenty-first Infantry regiments. The soldiers lived in a tent camp about a mile from the main post at Fort Robinson, their temporary quarters being named Camp George Crook. The expansion of Fort Robinson proved to be timely, for 1890-91 brought new Indian troubles and field service for the garrison. Discouraged by reservation life and hoping to bring back their old nomadic ways by supernatural methods, the Sioux took up the Ghost Dance. Ghost Dancers wore cloth shirts which they believed gave them supernatural protection against bullets, and during the course of their dancing they fell in trances and had visions of the spirit world in which they often talked to long dead relatives. Indian agents and civilians nearby became concerned lest the Indian wars begin again.