Leco
Jr. Member
Hello. I spent my predeployment leave back home in southeast Oklahoma and I can't wait for a year to roll around. I will be out of Afghanistan and out of the Army, back home with my family eating wild game and hunting for treasure. Anyways, my dad's parents own around 1300 acres of land in Choctaw county, Boswell, OK. I use to camp out there when I was little and remembered seeing old wells out there and decided to ask my dad about it. As it turns out there were three known homesteads on my grandparents land not counting there own (and there has been some kind of house there since WWI). So we load up, my dad, mom, my wife, and our dog, and head out to grannies. We start off looking at two old homesteads, very old, no foundations except the cisterns at each one and the blocks the houses set on. The next one was just speculation. When my granfather bought this one section of land in the fifties, there was a very old man living in the tree line in a one room shack. He must of been some kind of hermit because he was about three miles from anything even resembling a road. Nothing at all stands there today. Now this is where it gets cool...
My dad took us way up on this rocky hill. He took us to this mound of dirt with a round indention about three feet across in the center. This mound of soil didn't have as much rocks in it as the surrounding soil. He said when he was a child in the sixties it was a hole in the ground with planks of wood protruding out. His dad had told him that it was a old dugout shelter and when he first found it in the fifties it was partially caved in. My grandpa found two old lanterns out there sticking out the dirt. Does anybody know when these things were used in Southeast Oklahoma? How would you go about searching this site.
Now about a third of a mile east of there Muddy boggy and Clear Boggy merge together. Looking at old maps I saw that there was a road that ran from Boggy depot, crossed over boggy creek in the same general are, and went to Doaksville and Fort Towson. This was Pre-civil war. Also right across the river my grandpa used to own some land with a lake that supposedly had outlaw treasure in it. In the sixties some people from California came down and ripped that place to shreds looking for that loot. My grandpa while riding horseback, found a 1846 half dollar in darn good condition just setting on top of the ground. They quit minting this particular coin in the 1870s. The nearest towns was Mayhew, about ten miles away, and Doaksville, a good 40 miles or so away. He also found a old shotgun under a rock ledge with no markings other that 487 E on the barrel and a old pistold in the fork of a tree along the river.
Sorry for the long post, maybe I should of made multiple threads, I just don't know where to start. Any ideas?
My dad took us way up on this rocky hill. He took us to this mound of dirt with a round indention about three feet across in the center. This mound of soil didn't have as much rocks in it as the surrounding soil. He said when he was a child in the sixties it was a hole in the ground with planks of wood protruding out. His dad had told him that it was a old dugout shelter and when he first found it in the fifties it was partially caved in. My grandpa found two old lanterns out there sticking out the dirt. Does anybody know when these things were used in Southeast Oklahoma? How would you go about searching this site.
Now about a third of a mile east of there Muddy boggy and Clear Boggy merge together. Looking at old maps I saw that there was a road that ran from Boggy depot, crossed over boggy creek in the same general are, and went to Doaksville and Fort Towson. This was Pre-civil war. Also right across the river my grandpa used to own some land with a lake that supposedly had outlaw treasure in it. In the sixties some people from California came down and ripped that place to shreds looking for that loot. My grandpa while riding horseback, found a 1846 half dollar in darn good condition just setting on top of the ground. They quit minting this particular coin in the 1870s. The nearest towns was Mayhew, about ten miles away, and Doaksville, a good 40 miles or so away. He also found a old shotgun under a rock ledge with no markings other that 487 E on the barrel and a old pistold in the fork of a tree along the river.
Sorry for the long post, maybe I should of made multiple threads, I just don't know where to start. Any ideas?
