MAY NEED A LIGHT ON BUCK CREEK?? Traditional Cache
MAY NEED A LIGHT ON BUCK CREEK??
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THE NAME SAYS IT ALL.....
JUST TO EASY.... BUT NEEDED....
NOW THE STORY::: IT'S BEEN ABOUT 70 YEARS AGO... 1941 OR 42... THERE WAS A WHIRLPOOL HOLE ON THE NORTH/WEST SIDE OF THE BRIDGE.... IN THE SUMMER IT WAS A FAVORITE HANG OUT AND SWIMMING HOLE....
MY FOLKS (DAVID PETERS & TRUDIE OGLETREE) HAD JUST BEEN INTRODUCED TO EACH OTHER BY MY COUSIN (SHORTY OGLETREE), AT A CARNIVAL IN WELLINGTON..... I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THE TIME???? BECAUSE MOM LIVED AT MARILLA ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF QUAIL,,, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW OFTEN SHE MADE IT TO TOWN, AND SHE DIDN'T HAVE A CELL PHONE,,, BUT ARRANGEMENTS WERE MADE AND THEY MET MY COUSIN AND HIS DATE ALONG WITH MY UNCLE MARSHALL AND STARTED TOWARD CHILDRESS...
THEY HAD CARRIED 2 TIRES WITH THEM AND THEY HAD A FLAT RIGHT AT THIS CREEK..... THEY FIXED THE FLAT THEN DESIDED THAT IT MIGHT NOT BE A GOOD IDEAL TO GO ON.... SO THE BOYS PUMPED UP THE TWO INTERTUBES AND WENT SWIMMING....
IT SOUND LIKE A LITTLE HORSE PLAY ENSUED.... MOM FELL OUT OF HER TUBE...... MOM WAS NOT A SWIMMER... I THINK SHE STEPPED INTO A HOLE AND WENT UNDER AND DAD CAME TO THE RESCUE.... HE TOLD HER THEN THAT BECAUSE HE HAD SAVED HER LIFE;; SHE "OWED" HIM.... THE NEXT FRIDAY 13 of MAY THEY WERE MARRIED....
AND AM I GLAD, AS I WAS BORN IN 1946!!!
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AFTER SOME RESEARCH I FOUND THAT I WAS IN THE DARK ABOUT THIS TIME IN OUR TEXAS/OKLAHOMA HISTORY….THIS WAS A NO MAN’S LAND WHICH WAS LATER IN JACKSON HOLE, WY (visit link)
WE HAD SOME SPECIAL HISTORY THAT MOST OF THE STATE DON’T KNOW OR UNDERSTAND… I DOSE NOT MATTER IF YOU ARE ON THE OKLAHOMA SIDE OR THE TEXAS SIDE THERE ARE STILL GREAT STORIES/LESSON…
IT APPEARS THAT THE TWO STATES (TX &OK) HAVE TRIED TO INCREASE THERE LAND HOLDINGS…. [SEE MAPS] THIS STARTED WHEN TEXAS BECAME A NATION…. HOWEVER IT DIDN’T GO TO COURT UNTIL OKLAHOMA BECAME A STATE AND THE FEDERAL GOV. WANTED THE LAND FOR INDIAN NATIONS,, ABOUT 1822-1914…. THEN IN 1907 OKLAHOMA BECAME A STATE…. FULLED WITH NATIONS OF NATIVE AMERICANS….
IF I UNDERSTAND IT RIGHT TEXAS ASSUMED THE IT’S BORDER WERE TO REMAIN AS THE SPANISH HAD DRAWN THEM… [SEE MAP A] HOWEVER THE U.S. TOOK MOST OF THE NORTHERN PART OF TEXAS WHEN THEY WERE ADMITTED IN 1945 AND BASICALLY CUT OFF THE TOPS OF LOUISIANA (PART OF THE PURCHASE) AND TEXAS… LEAVING TEXAS WITH A PANHANDLE….
THE LAND DISPUTE WAS ABOUT THE NORTHERN BOARDS…
OKLAHOMA WANTED PEASE RIVER ESTABLISHED AS THERE SOUTHERN BORDER (WHICH RUNS JUST NORTH OF PADUCAH, TX).. (visit link)
SO TEXAS SAID THEY WANTED THE NORTH FORK OF THE RED (JUST NORTH OF SHAMROCK, TX..)…[SEE MAP B]
AS THE FIGHT ESCALATED OKLAHOMA THAN ASK FOR THE 101st (WEST THE OTHER SIDE OF CLAREDON, TX.)…
TEXAS ASK FOR THE 99th (EAST OF MAGNUM, OK)…
THEN OKLAHOMA ASK FOR THE 102nd (WEST OF CANYON, TX.)…
AND TEXAS ASK FOR THE 98th… (EAST OF ANADARLO, OK)
THE BIG COMPROMISE…
OR AS WE TEXANS SAID: “STEALING OF OUR LAND” resulted in the loss from Texas to what is now Oklahoma of 1,511,576 acres.
IN 1927 IT WAS TAKEN BEFORE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT AND THE PRESENT BOUNDARY WAS ESTABLISHED…I’M NOT SURE THAT I’VE GOT IT ALL RIGHT YET,, MAY NEED A LAWYER????
THERE WAS A 3rd COURT MEETING IN 1989 BUT THE BOUNDRY DIDN’T CHANGE…
. { I THINK OKLAHOMA JUST WANTED THE COTTONBOWL AND COWBOYS TO BE ADDED TO OKLAHOMA????} JUST KIDDIN…..
…. I REMEMBER A MENTION OF THE TEXAS DISPUTE IN 7th GRADE TEXAS HISTORY CLASS…
I STARTED MY FIRST CACHE WITH “NO MANS LAND SOUTH” (GC17RYG ) AS I THOUGHT ABOUT IT… I DECIDED IT WOULD BE NICE TO SET UP THE SERIES TO SHARE THIS EXPERIENCE…
. AS WE DROVE DOWN THE 100th MERIDIAN WE FOUND A TYPE OF BENCH MARK THAT WAS ISSUED BY THE SUPREM COURT IN 1927… I WILL CONTACT WAYPOINT AND SEE IF WE CAN SET THEM UP TOO???
MY GPS INDICATED THAT THEY WERE PLACED @ 100. 00.024 ABOUT 1 (ONE) MILES APART… THX FOR YOUR HELP…. L8R FREDY
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[BRING A PIN. AND T/B..... I THOUGHT ABOUT CALLING IT A T/B MOTEL.....]
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