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There is actually a great deal of information available about Fort Hoskins, as well as its sister post, Fort Yamhill.

The vast majority of the reliable information comes from Bensell and Hilleary's journals. There is also a great deal of misinformation lurking in places like newspaper articles from the early 20th century when well-meaning people inflated the history of the area.

Things to flesh out include:

• List of companies who served at the fort
• Photos of current site
• Maps/sketches of the fort (no photos exist)
• Notable people who served there (including Phil Sheridan)

Both references are out of print and hard to find, but I have copies of them. Inquiries welcome. Twisted86 06:58, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photo of drawing

The accuracy of this image is questioned. As mentioned above, there is a lot of misinformation in circulation in the local area about Fort Hoskins (including a number of myths about Phil Sheridan). I think that this image is one of these bits, in that I suspect that the drawing was made by someone long after the fort was demolished based on what the artist thought the fort should have looked like.

Accounts I have read are specific that the "fort" had no stockade wall. However, I will have to do research in order to find the cite for this.

In the meanwhile, I will try to find a way to tag the image as questionable and leave the image in until we can find a definitive answer. Twisted86 18:34, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External link

Thanks for fixing that link. I couldn't get the formatting to work properly for some reason. Katr67 19:03, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome! Twisted86 19:35, 16 August 2006 (UTC)