Washita County, Oklahoma
This bit of Cloud Chief history submitted by Doyle Fenn.

CLOUD CHIEF SITS ON HER OLD GYP HILL
by T. A. Edwards

Cloud Chief sits on her old gyp hill,
And hot winds blow as hot winds will.
The sun beats down with fervent glare,
The gullied street and dusty square.
On the ragged row of cottonwood shacks,
Where the horses gnaw at the hitching racks,
Gnaw and paw and fight the flies
Or sagging stand with sleeping eyes.
Here's big George Gordon a-tendin bar,
As cowmen gather from near and far;
Their snaffles jingle, the saddles squeak
For the Williams riders from the Turkey Creek.
The Hughes boys down on the Washita
And rustlers out of the Kiowa,
The rollicking crowd of Quarles and Teel;
Chaps and Boots, and spur at heel,
A poker game or a bit of fun,
A-cussin' some herd-law son-of-a-gun,
On the vacant lots the nester meet,
With a little jag of cotton or wheat,
Butter and eggs and prairie hay:
The liveliest town in the C and A!
The night grows old, the street is still.
Cloud Chief sits on her old gyp hill

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Thomas A. Edwards was a pioneer in Washita County. In 1900, he was living in the Iron Hotel at Cloud Chief and was a single man practicing law. When the county seat was moved to Cordell, he moved to Cordell. At later dates, he served as a county commissioner and judge.