Devil's Canyon (Kiowa County, Oklahoma)

Coordinates: 34°50′09″N 99°15′19″W / 34.835833°N 99.255278°W / 34.835833; -99.255278

Devil's Canyon
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Lugert, Oklahoma
Area	738 acres (299 ha)
NRHP Reference #	72001066^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 20, 1972

Devil's Canyon, in present-day Kiowa County, Oklahoma, was the site of the first formal contact between the United States government and the Plains Indians. On July 21, 1834, US troops under the command of Col. Henry Dodge escorted government officials to a peace conference at the Wichita village on the prairie at the confluence of the canyon and the North Fork of the Red River.

References

↑ Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Topics	Architectural style categories Contributing property Historic district History of the National Register of Historic Places Keeper of the Register National Park Service Property types

Lists by states	Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Lists by insular areas	American Samoa Guam Minor Outlying Islands Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico Virgin Islands

Lists by associated states	Federated States of Micronesia Marshall Islands Palau

Other areas	District of Columbia Morocco

Category Portal WikiProject

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, November 18, 2013. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.