Greer Co. OK -     Commanche Springs NE of Granite, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Jodean Martin jodeanmartin@cox.net
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Commanche Springs NE of Granite, Oklahoma


Commanche Springs NE of Granite, Oklahoma by Jodean Martin


Comanche Springs  was located on the  first maps of the
Southwest .  In 1830 the Indians  camped there.  In 1850's
the travelers from the Santa Fe Trail  who were traveling to
Louisianna found the Spring.  In the 1870's the Western
Cattle Trail used the Springs as a resting place for their
cattle and men.  About the same time the army built a
military road between Ft. Sill and Ft. Elliott  and
established an early day Stagecoach stand at the Springs.

Today there is a huge circle,  still visible,  where the
buffalo soldiers  camped while keeping the Peace on the
Plains.   In this same circle, the Indians, on their journey
to the plains of Texas,  would stake their tepees..

Neither traveler nor time  has erased the traces of the old
camp grounds.  Today it is a silent symbol of those who
passed  this way.  The spirit of lives  past still echo
across the virgin lands.  You find yourself  looking  for
the  pioneers who have lived here, for the  vibrations are
so strong that they tingling up and down your spine.   Very
reverantly our feet  trod  the haloed grounds of our
forefathers  at Comanche Springs.