The
Caddo Springs Stage Station was located along the
Chisholm Trail and is mentioned on this
web site about El Reno, Oklahoma:
Before the town of El Reno was born, a man by the name of Jesse Chisholm established the Chisholm Trail in 1866, where hundreds of herds of cattle would be driven north from Texas to Kansas where they would be loaded on trains headed to the east. On top of Concho Hill north of present day El Reno, the Caddo Springs Stage Station was established and soon became a major stopping point between Wichita, Kansas and Fort Sill, Oklahoma……….The Darlington Indian Agency was established in August, 1869 three miles north and two miles west of present day El Reno. The settlement and the agency took its name from Brinton Darlington, the agency’s first superintendent. Soon, the Cheyenne Indian School was established two miles north of Darlington in 1871.Directly south of Caddo Springs is the location of the Concho cemetery. Brinton Darlington is buried there. The cemetery is on the hill overlooking the North Canadian river valley.
Also buried at Concho is Cheyenne Indian
Robert H. Burns (1862 - 1930). His father, White Leaf, and other relatives were killed in the Sand Creek Massacre. A photo and short bio of Burns can be found at the
Sand Creek Massacre web site. Burns, an interpreter, married
Ada Bent (1867 - 1910), the daughter of George Bent. Ada is also buried at Concho.
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Author David Halaas, in his book Halfbreed, writes about George Bent and includes the events following the Sand Creek Massacre. Pages 173 and 174 describe the discovery of scalps by a Cheyenne war party. The war party had encountered 9 Colorado volunteers on the South Platte Road, apparently veterans of Sand Creek. The 9 were killed, and then the war party found the Cheyenne scalps that had been taken at Sand Creek and kept in possession of those soldiers.
One of the scapls was identified as White Leaf by the scalp's unusually light color. White Leaf was the father of Robert Burns.
ROBERT BURNS, as a boy, was present at the Sand Hill Fight along the North Canadian River near Darlington. See the story of Chief Kias at this web site:
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v018/v018p281.html
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