Other buildings of significance at Fort Assinniboine were a hospital on the northern end of the parade grounds and a church that doubled as a school during the week.  Several large quartermasters’ storage buildings and two large quartermasters’ stables were located to the south and to the west of the cavalry stables.  The site also contained a rifle range and a cemetery, two artisan wells, and two coal beds.  Separate quarters for the regimental band were also added just west of the hospital. Quarters for the Indian scouts assigned to the fort lay outside the post perimeter fence to the north.
            While history tends to remember life on the western frontier in terms of ongoing battles with Indians, the reality is actually much different.  The day-to-day life of the soldier was one of routine drudgery, boring drills and inspections, and the continual challenge of supplying the needs of up to 1,000 military and civilian personnel.  In many respects, the supply sergeants, blacksmiths and clerks represent the real history of western conquest.
            One of Fort Assinniboine’s claims to fame was its garden.  Located on the eastern side of Beaver Creek, the garden supplied many bumper crops for the troops.  Tended and harvested by enlisted personnel, the vegetables would be stored in three large root cellars located east of the Married Officers Quarters.

No memorable military battles were fought by the troops at Fort Assinniboine, instead the army was kept busy curtailing the liquor and contraband trade between the United States and Canada and preventing various Indian tribes, namely the Cree, Sioux and Blackfoot, from violently settling long-held disputes and grudges.             The troops also engaged in such activities as escort duty, searching for lost horses and tracking down deserters.             Following the Riel Rebellion of 1885 in Canada, Fort Assinniboine granted political asylum to several hundred Cree Indians who fled south.  They were allowed