Volume 13 , Issue 36

NW Okie's Corner

On Golden Pond at Weaselskin Creek, we look back to our "Mailbag" archives to pull some tidbits of what some of our readers sent in for OkieLegacy Vol. III, 2001 Issues.

One of those tidbits was about Tailholt, Oklahoma. Gary Taylor reminded us, "According to my father, O. M. Taylor, Jr. who was raised in Taloga, Tailholt got its name from a resident of Chester, who may have been a veterinarian. He had a painting on the side of his truck showing a man holding a bull by the tail. This was probably in the 1920's."

Another reader back in November, 2001 reminded us about the Drumm Ranch and that the headquarters for the Drumm Ranch was near the Medicine River south and east of Burlington and Driftwood. It was just a half mile east of where the gas plant is now on Highway 11 and 58. The plant is on 3rd section north of the Salt Fork bridge. The old Drumm land is now owned by Ronald Myers of Alva. They moved the Drumm Ranch monument tot he McClaflin pasture because of river flooding. It stands in a pasture on Section 6-27-10, a mile south and two plus miles east of where it used to rest.

As to the Lindsey Hotel in Waynoka, Oklahoma that we spoke about last week, Sandie sent us a photo image and said, "I don't know the name of the hotel, actually, but the son who inherited half of it was Jim Lindsey. I was able to scan the P. C. McDonald Carriage Painting and a photo of a young child that were found in the attic."

Do any of these photos jog some memory cells out there? If so, contact Sandie Olson (Email: sandie.olson@gmail.com) at the Waynoka Historical Society.

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