Editing Camargo, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
The area that became the present town of Camargo was part of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation until it was opened for non-Indian settlement on April 19, 1892. A Camargo post office was established on September 16, 1892. Two stories exist about the meaning of the town name. One claims that it was named for a town in Illinois, while the other claims Camargo meant "little dog" in the Cheyenne language.<ref name="EOHC-Camargo">{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CA017 |last=Wilson |first=Linda D. |title=Camargo |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture |publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society |edition=online |date=2009 |access-date=March 22, 2016}}</ref>

Farming and ranching sustained Camargo's early economy. The [[Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway]] (later the [[Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway]], or Katy) built a line in 1912 between Leedey and [[Forgan, Oklahoma|Forgan]] (in [[Beaver County, Oklahoma|Beaver County]] that passed through Camargo. [[Bentonite]] was mined in the area and shipped on the railroad until the railroad ceased operating in 1972–73.<ref name="EOHC-Camargo"/>

[[Sylvan Ambrose Hart]], one of the last mountain men, was born in Camargo, the eldest of six children.