Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1995
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The Site of Camp Comanche: Dragoon Expedition of 1834 (Article)
Article recreates the meeting of a troop of U.S. dragoons with a group of Comanches in 1834 through historical documentation and evidence collected by the Oklahoma Historical Society. Through the investigation, museum director Gillett Griswold seeks to the determine the physical location of Camp Comanche.
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Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1995 (Article)
Notes and Documents section for Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1995. It includes a document honoring Anna Lewis, a historian who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 1995.
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Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1995, periodical, Autumn 1995; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1872492/: accessed February 10, 2026), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.