Historical Marker
Chief Stumbling Bear Pass
Historical marker location:
Lawton, Oklahoma
( Marker is on State Highway 58, 0.7 miles north of NW Wolf Road, on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1967
Stumbling Bear, a Kiowa, was the last signer of the Medicine Lodge Treaty in 1867. Stumbling Bear founded the first permanent settlement of Plains Indians in the area. In 1877 the federal government built houses for the Indians on Canyon Creek, north of the Wichita Mountains.