Issue Beef Pens - Fort Sill, OK
N 34° 40.159 W 098° 22.489
14S E 557277 N 3836550
Beef was issued to the local Kiowa and Comanche here.
Waymark Code: WMM7BA
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 08/04/2014
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Beef was issued out from the post corral. On issue day, the braves would sit on their horses around the pen with their rifles. The pen was opened and when a steer ran out, they chased it and killed it. The squaws would then come out and clean and dress the carcass. This was, to some extent, to reproduce the thrill of hunting the buffalo.
Tha marker reads:
Issue Beef Pens
Beef was issued "on the hoof" here to several thousand Kiowas and Comanches, 1870 - 1878. Two civilian cattle hearders were killed and scalped by Kiowas here on 22 Sept 1871.
County: Comanche
Record Address::
Fort Sill, OK
73503
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Date Erected: unknown
Sponsor (Who put it there): Fort Sill Museum
Web site if available: Not listed
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