Elko, NV, United States
Fort Halleck Site 1867 1886. On July 26, 1867, Captain Samuel Smith established what became Fort Halleck twelve miles to the south near Soldier Creek. In concert with Fort Ruby fifty miles further south, the Army intended the Fort to protect the California Emigrant Trail, the Overland mail route and
construction work on the Central Pacific Railroad during conflicts with Goshute and Western Shoshone in that decade.The camp was named for Major General Henry Wager Halleck, a prominent general who s
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