Saddle Mountain is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Kiowa County,

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, United States, along State Highway 115. The Saddle Mountain Post Office existed from January 2, 1902, until May 31, 1955. It was named for the Saddle Mountain Baptist Mission which opened in 1903. Saddle Mountain, a foothill of the

Wichita Mountains The Wichita Mountains are located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is the principal relief system in the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen, being the result of a failed continental rift. The mountains are a northwest-south ...

lies about a mile to the southeast in Comanche County.

Monroe Tsatoke Monroe Tsatoke (1904–1937) was a Kiowa painter and a member of the Kiowa Six from Oklahoma.Watson, Mary JoTsatoke, Monroe (1904-1937). ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'' (Oklahoma Historical Society, 2009) Early life Monroe Tsato ...

, a

Kiowa Kiowa ( ) or Cáuigú () people are a Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribe and an Indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mountains in Colora ...

artist, was born here in 1904, when it was still part of

Oklahoma Territory The Territory of Oklahoma was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 2, 1890, until November 16, 1907, when it was joined with the Indian Territory under a new constitution and admitted to the Union as ...

.Lester, Patrick D. ''The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters.'' Norman and London: The Oklahoma University Press, 1995: 571. . This land was allotted to the Spotted Horse family at the beginning of the 20th century and is said to be worth from $16–20 million.

Notable people

* Isabel Crawford, a Baptist missionary who helped the

people establish the Saddle Mountain Baptist Mission *

Angela R. Riley Angela R. Riley is an American and Potawatomi jurist serving as the chief justice of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Supreme Court since 2010. She is a professor of law at UCLA School of Law. She is an appellate justice at both Rincon Band of Luis ...

, chief justice of

Citizen Potawatomi Nation Citizen Potawatomi Nation is a federally recognized tribe of Potawatomi people located in Oklahoma. The Potawatomi are traditionally an Algonquian languages, Algonquian-speaking Eastern Woodlands tribes, Eastern Woodlands tribe. They have 29,155 e ...

(2010-present)

Utilities

Telephone, Internet, and Digital TV is provided by Hilliary Communications.

References

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