Book a guide to frontier forts on Northern Plains: "Forts of the Northern Plains, Guide to Historic Military Posts of the Plains Indian Wars" by Jeff Barnes, Stackpole Books, 220 pages, $19.95

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The first thing such visitors want to do, however, is pick up a copy of this book, a guide to re-created and existing forts and the ghostly sites of long-gone forts. Nebraska has the most entries in this guide and the most forts where visitors can actually wander around and wonder at the often primitive conditions that frontier soldiers endured.

[Jeff Barnes] will sign copies of "Forts of the Northern Plains: Guide to Historic Military Posts of the Plains Indian Wars" today at 2 p.m. at Lee Booksellers, 5500 S. 56th St. For more information or to reserve a book, call 420-1919.