Boise City, Oklahoma
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29miles Northeast of Boise City
Lake Carl Etling, the 200 acre lake located within Black Mesa State Park, was formed by a dam on Carrizzo Creek. Completed in 1959, Lake Etling has shoreline of 5 miles and an average depth of 11... continue
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Black Mesa Nature Preserve
The 1,600 acre preserve protects about 60% of the mesa top in Oklahoma in addition to talus slopes and plains habitat. A native granite monument marks the highest point in Oklahoma - 4,973
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Autograph Rock
Autograph Rock contains hundreds of carved signatures of Santa Fe travelers and others dating as early as 1826. Autograph Rock is a 200 yard long rock cliff about 20-25 feet high. There are over 323 names on the rock itself and 500
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"Cimmy", the Apatasaurus
Bones of prehistoric dinosaurs were discovered in 1931 about eight miles east of Kenton which included an almost complete skeleton of an apatasaurus, thought to be the largest specimen of its kind in existence. "Cimmy"
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Santa Fe Trail
The Santa Fe Trail is thought to be the oldest and longest commercial highway across the Great Plains, from Franklin on the Missouri River east of present Kansas City nearly 800 miles southwest to Santa Fe of today's New Mexico. A direct path across the plains (the Cimarron Route or Cut-off)
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Court House Murals
Ruth Monro Augur, nationally known muralist, was forced on W.P.A. rolls during the depression because her commissions fell...