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Left Hand Spring was a well-known watering stop on the old Chisholm Trail in present-day
Blaine County, Oklahoma Blaine County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,735. Its county seat is Watonga. Part of the Cheyenne-Arapaho land opening in 1892, the county had gained rail lines by the early 19 ...
. The spring was named for ''Left Hand'', an
Arapaho The Arapaho (; french: Arapahos, ) are a Native American people historically living on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming. They were close allies of the Cheyenne tribe and loosely aligned with the Lakota and Dakota. By the 1850s, Arapaho ...
chief.
Jesse Chisholm Jesse Chisholm (''circa ''1805 - March 4, 1868) (Cherokee) was a Cherokee fur trader and merchant in the American West. He is known for having scouted and developed what became known as the Chisholm Trail, later used to drive cattle from Texas to ...
died there in 1868 and is buried nearby. His grave is marked with a granite historical marker.


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*Map: * Bodies of water of Blaine County, Oklahoma Springs of Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-geo-stub