Indian Helmet

ID: 4798 ~ Source: Photograph courtesy of Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area.
This file appears in: Indian Scouts at Fort Spokane

This helmet once belonged to a native scout in Company I at Fort Spokane. It illustrates the attempts to make the scouts more like regular troops.

This file appears in: Indian Scouts at Fort Spokane

By Ryan Yetter
Like most Army posts on the western frontier, Fort Spokane relied on native scouts. Indian scouts interpreted, guided soldiers through the wilderness of eastern Washington, and brought back vital intelligence to the Army. At Fort Spokane, being…