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Volume 12, Issue 42 - Feature #5761

Oklahoma Wild Sand Plums

This is Buck VanDorn that grew up near Bent Canyon. Recently, my son pin pointed Bent Canyon on Maps and wrote that the creek was called Howling Wolf Creek. Hi Jack. How are you?

Bdvandorn@yahoo.com - 2017-07-12 23:37:12

About 10 miles north of Woodward is a is a large and well-watered canyon with local name "Bent Canyon". I suspect it is named for the Bent brothers who traded in Kansas, Colorado and Indian Territory in the mid 1800's, but I have no proof. Their main post was at Bent's Fort in Colorado, and they traded all along the Arkansas and its' tributaries. Can anyone help in tracking down the origin of this place name? Thanks, Jack Rutledge

- 2011-05-30 20:15:03

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