White Woman Creek Traditional Cache
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According to the Wichita County History Book, Vol. 1, the White Woman Creek got its name following an Indian attack in the late 1860s. An Indian war party attacked homesteads in the area, including an Army ambulance. A mutilated body of a soldier was found in the ambulance carnage and settlers later learned that a woman was traveling with the ambulance and was kidnapped by the Indians. The woman, to avoid the same tortures she had seen inflicted upon the ambulance driver, stole a rope from the Indians while they camped, ran to a tree on the banks of this little stream and hanged herself before her captors could stop her. From that time, the story goes, the Indians called this stream White Woman Creek, a name that has stuck for more than 100 years.
In another account published in the second volume of Wichita County history, it claims: "Legend has it that during the 1870's a band of Indians captured an army wagon, killed the guard and rode away with the young wife of an officer. They camped that night on the banks of a small stream, and in some manner the woman escaped. The last that the Indians saw of her, she was running up the bed of the stream, and it is believed she perished on the prairies. To this day, it is said, on moonlight nights, the spirit of this young woman may be seen running along the valley - hence the name White Woman."
This is a beautiful view of what the area must have looked like before farming. A great view of sunrises and sunsets - and maybe a glimpse of a ghost!
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