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.
The mission of the Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) is to collect, preserve, and share the history and culture of the state of Oklahoma and its people. The OHS was founded on May 27, 1893, by members of the Territorial Press Association.
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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Abstract: In 1834 the U.S. Dragoons traveled to what is now southwest Oklahoma to make contact with the Comanches and other tribes, but the sites of their camps and exact routes have long been a source of confusion for historians and the general public. Gillett Griswold reviews the participants' accounts and other published literature and reports on his own investigations to set the record straight about these important sites.
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The Chronicles of Oklahoma
The Chronicles of Oklahoma is the scholarly journal published by the Oklahoma Historical Society. It is a quarterly publication and was first published in 1921.