If anyone is interested in Ancient Oklahoma History…

[PanhandleGlocker]

Found a neat article about some caves around Kenton that I didn’t even know much about. Good read if interested. Any neat stuff like this in your part of the state?

http://kentoncaves.blogspot.com/2008/04/kenton-caves-of-western-oklahoma.html?m=1

 

[Gunbuffer]

Cool stuff. Love it

 

[TerryMiller]

I was raised in that area, and I still have a sister and brother-in-law and their son and his wife there in Keyes. I've spent a lot of time in the Kenton area, but I had never heard (or at least don't recall hearing about) the caves.

That doesn't mean a lot because even though a Japanese Internment Camp was located 125 miles north of Keyes, I'd never heard of it, even though Keyes had a number of WWII veterans.

Pictures from the Kenton and Black Mesa Area

Pictures of the Lake Carl Etling State Park Area

 

[PanhandleGlocker]

I was raised in that area, and I still have a sister and brother-in-law and their son and his wife there in Keyes. I've spent a lot of time in the Kenton area, but I had never heard (or at least don't recall hearing about) the caves.

That doesn't mean a lot because even though a Japanese Internment Camp was located 125 miles north of Keyes, I'd never heard of it, even though Keyes had a number of WWII veterans.

Pictures from the Kenton and Black Mesa Area

Pictures of the Lake Carl Etling State Park Area

did you ever go on the Kohler Ranch? North of Boise City on the river.

 

[Uncle TK]

http://kentoncaves.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post.htmlI would not call this a cave (There are six of them)

 

[Perplexed]

According to the article, three mummified humans were found at the caves in 1933. I found this excerpt to be rather bizarre:

The three mummies were divided among the principle [sic] finders. The mummified child was kept for a time under a bed at J. R. Butler's home, in John Tharp's garage, in Pard Collins' house, and even hung on the back of an upstairs door at the Kenton Hotel before being donated to the No Man's Land Museum (Hollis 1979). For over 15 years the mummified woman was kept in the attic storage area at the Kenton Hotel before being moved to a "museum" in Brownie Collins' house at Kenton. During the 1950s, Willis Stovall allegedly took the adult mummies; however, there is no trace of them at the University of Oklahoma.

 

[PanhandleGlocker]

http://kentoncaves.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post.htmlI would not call this a cave (There are six of them)

pretty sure it’s still the definition of a cave

 

[PanhandleGlocker]

According to the article, three mummified humans were found at the caves in 1933. I found this excerpt to be rather bizarre:

yeah I remember as a kid hearing that the museum in Goodwell has the mummified child. I heard it’s not on display. To be completely honest I haven’t actually been to the museum even though it’s 10 miles from me and I’ve lived here my entire life.

 

[XYZ]

I remember hearing about these a few decades ago when I was doing research on the Black Caper Vireo. We were hoping to find suitable habitat out in the region for transplant nesting. Didn’t pan out, it was kind of a dumb idea.

Black-capped Vireo | Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation

Sorry for the tangent.

 

[Snattlerake]

According to the article, three mummified humans were found at the caves in 1933. I found this excerpt to be rather bizarre:

Typical treatment of artifacts during the period described. Non-educated locals and long-distance communication still being primitive, cooperation with science was nonexistant. It was the depression and if you could make a buck, you would.