Historical Marker
Battle of the Washita
Historical marker location:
Cheyenne, Oklahoma
( Marker is on L. L. Males Boulevard (U.S. 283) near Clay Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1949
On November 27, 1868, Colonel George Armstrong Custer led the 7th Cavalry in an attack on Chief Black Kettle's camp on the Washita River. The surprise, early-morning attack decimated the Cheyenne camp and no doubt was the seed for Custer's later meeting with American Indians at the Battle of Little Big Horn.