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Cheyenne, Oklahoma

  • Antelope Hills

    Antelope HillsThe distinctive formations of the Antelope Hills were a landmark for Spanish explorers in the 1500s and later for settlers moving west on the south branch of the California Road. This was a familiar l...
    Antelope Hills

  • Horseshoe Hills

    Horseshoe HillsThis landmark is a unique formation of hills creating a natural horseshoe shape. Custer and his men camped there the night before the attack on Chief Black Kettle, serving as an ideal place to hide Cu...
    Horseshoe Hills

  • California Road Marker

    Opened in the Spring of 1849, this road was first traveled by gold seekers in the rush for California. This historic trail crossed Roger Mills county, moving directly across the present site of Cheyen...
    California Road Marker

  • Sandstone Creek Project

    The Sandstone Creek Project was the world's first upstream flood prevention project. It was the first complete watershed treatment of its kind in America. ...
    Sandstone Creek Project

Attractions and Upcoming Events

Battle of Washita Sculpture

Inside the Roger Mills County Courthouse in Cheyenne is a breathtaking, life size sculpture in bronze entitled "The Washita." This sculpture was created by the artist Ernest Berke in 1984. The sculpture "Washita"

Cheyenne, OK Arts

The Augusta Metcalfe & Break O'Day Farm

Break O'Day Farm and Metcalfe Museum, the historic homestead and repository for the works of Oklahoma pioneer and “Sagebrush Artist,” Augusta Corson Metcalfe Directions:

Cheyenne, OK Museums

Santa Fe Depot

Cheyenne was the western terminus for the Clinton, Oklahoma, and Western Railroad (also known as the "COW") until the Santa Fe took over in 1928 and extended the line to Pampa, Texas. Passenger service survived until the 1960's using a "doodlebug" (AT&SF Motorcar #M.177) as train numbers 63 & 64

Cheyenne, OK Railroad History

Pioneer Memorial Wall

The Pioneer Memorial Wall lists the names of settlers and residents of Roger Mills county. Accompanying the memorial wall is a brief history monument of the settlement of the county and its development from the 1541 crossing by Coronado, through the Indian occupation, the "Land Run,"

Cheyenne, OK Memorials

The Story of the Battle of the Washita

Introduction The cultural collision between pioneers and Indians reached its peak on the Great Plains during the decades before and after the Civil War. U.S. Government policy sought to separate tribes and settlers from each other by establishing an Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma)

Cheyenne, OK

Things to do near Cheyenne, OK

Alabaster Caverns State Park

Alabaster Caverns State Park is the largest gypsum cave in the world open to the public. Huge boulders of alabaster, a fine-g...

Laverne Golf and Country Club

Ponca City Library

First Lady's Collection

Doll factory....

Jones and Plummer Trail Marker

In early 1870s, C.E.(Ed) Jones and Joe Plummer blazed the historic trail which is an important part of Oklahoma Panhandle's r...