Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency in Indian Territory, 1878.  Britton Darlington selected this location on the north bank of the North Canadian River (northwest of present-day El Reno, Oklahoma). He and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians moved there in May 1870. A number of the Indians, uncomfortable with being so far away from the buffalo, soon returned to the prairie. The buildings in the drawing are as follows:  (1) school (at top of campus to the right), (2) commissaries and office, (3) Reynolds trading house, (4) abandoned trading house, (5) Indian agent's residence, (6) carpenter and unmarried employees' residence, (7) sawmill, (8) physician's office, (9) farmer's residence, (10) assistant farmer's residence, (11) blacksmith's residence, (12) clerk and physician's residence, (13) carpenter shop, (14) blacksmith shop, (15) stage stand, (16) white school, and (17) government barn and corn crib.  [Drawing courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

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