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Country: United States

State: OK

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Fort Cobb was at the western edge of 'Indian Territory' in the mid/late 1800s. Now in Caddo County, Oklahoma. Info. on Fort Arbuckle: http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entryname=FORT%20ARBUCKLE "False Washita" is now just called the Washita River: "French explorers discovered this river while traveling upstream on the Red River, early in the 18th Century and thought it was the same stream described by friendly Choctaw tribesmen as the Ouachita River. They soon found that it appeared very different from descriptions of the Ouachita, and named it the Faux Ouachita (False Ouachita). The name was later corrupted by American settlers to False Washita. After the American Civil War, the river was simply known as the Washita." (-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washita_River)