Built in 1866 and now a state historic site, Fort Buford is eerily quiet, with only the stone powder magazine and a museum in an original soldiers’ quarters open for viewing. Home to a company of “Buffalo Soldiers,” as the Sioux called the black cavalrymen, the fort is best known for its sad contribution to the U.S. extermination campaign of Native Americans: It was here that Chief Sitting Bull surrendered to the U.S. Army in 1881, and here that Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé was brought after his “I will fight no more forever” surrender in Montana.
