Cantonment
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Cantonment
Site about 2 mi. N.
Post established on Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation, March 6, 1879, by 23rd Inf., under Col. Richard Doge. He completed his book "Our Wild Indians" there. Post abandoned in June, 1882. Stone buildings were part of Mennonite Mission. Rev. S.S. Haury, Seupt., for many years: U.S. Indian School, 1897: Indian Agency, 1903
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