Category:Fort Arbuckle

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Fort Arbuckle (1851-1870) - built by Captain Randolph B. Marcy in the unsettled Indian Territory to protect the Civilized Indians, Chickasaws and Choctaws, from the Kiowa and Comanche Indians and to protect the wagon train emigrants making their way to the California gold fields using the trails between Fort Smith and Santa Fe. The fort was established on April 19, 1851 and named for the late General Matthew Arbuckle. Gen. Arbuckle had been Commander of the Military Department of Missouri until his death from cholera on April 11, 1851 at Fort Smith .

Location: Garvin County, Oklahoma

• Latitude: 34.52556
• Longitude: -97.24833

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