Devil's Canyon, in present-day

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, was the site of the first formal contact between the United States government and the

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. On July 21, 1834, US troops under the command of Col.

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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.

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Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma Geography of Oklahoma American frontier Geography of Kiowa County, Oklahoma National Register of Historic Places in Kiowa County, Oklahoma {{OldWest-stub