Jumping Horses for Sale near Cheyenne, OK

About Cheyenne, OK

Cheyenne is the location of the Battle of Washita River (also called Battle of the Washita; Washita Battlefield; Washita Massacre), where George Armstrong Custer’s 7th U.S. Cavalry attacked the sleeping Cheyenne village of Black Kettle on the Washita River on November 26, 1868. Cheyenne has been a county seat since 1895. But construction of the nearest railway into the area, the Clinton and Oklahoma Western Railway Company (“C&OW”) terminated in 1912 at Strong City and that township was laid out with a rocky knoll in the center reserved for the County Courthouse, should Strong City become the county seat instead of Cheyenne. To keep their town’s position, the citizens of Cheyenne responded by building the Cheyenne Short Line Railroad up the Washita River valley to Strong City to connect to the C&OW.