In grave silence they came to the adobe fort, bowed ceremoniously from their caparisoned horses and said, "The Oglala will come."

He stormed from his quarters and ran across the parade ground to the old adobe fort, where Captain Ketchum was meeting with his staff and the mountain men.

In the background is the community of Ft. Benton, confirmed by the adobe fort among the buildings along the Missouri River.

Tonight, the leaders are dining at The Fort, a popular tourist attraction made to look like an old adobe fort.

In 1819, Jacob Fowler noted an abandoned Spanish adobe fort at the location.

After doing so, the Spanish colonials built an adobe fort with four towers in Guaymas, initially under the command of Captain Lorenzo Cancio.

Slowly the chief detached himself from the Indians with whom he had been talking and very slowly walked the considerable distance from the adobe fort to the new white building.

The well-restored adobe fort has a blacksmith's shop, wood shop and fully stocked general store.

By 1859 the adobe fort was dissolving into the mud from which it was created.

Kama villages - adobe forts with carved turrets, narrow lanes and open-air mosques - had a prewar population of 10,000 families.