The lot features a set of bear hide gauntlet gloves attributed to being from Fort Keogh founded by Colonel Nelson A. Miles. The set shows hair on hide mitten shaped gloves with an integral wrist gauntlet showing tanned leather palms and dark green corduroy clothe lining. Fort Keogh is a former US Army post located at the western edge of modern-day Miles City, Montana and was in use from circa 1876-1924 on the banks of the Yellowstone River. Nelson A. Miles founded the post in 1876 in the wake of the Battle of the Little Bighorn as a base to patrol the Cheyenne and Sioux American Indians, originally known as the Tongue River Cantonment. Two years later moved one mile west and renamed Fort Keogh in honor of Captain Myles Keogh who was killed at the Little Bighorn. The gloves are said to date to circa 1876-1924 being from the Fort worn during the harsh winters by an Army enlisted Fort member. Each measure 14.5”x9”.