Volume 10 , Issue 38

Saline Game Preserve (Dog Ranch)

Grace wrote in wanting to information concerning Orville (last name unknown) who worked for the Saline Game Preserve (known as "Dog Ranch" to locals) over at the Great Salt Plains, near Cherokee, Oklahoma.

I did a search on Google for "dog ranch" and "Saline Game Preserve" and found the following links. The first link has some interesting info concerning the dog ranch, but did not find anything about an Orville. The second one just has some family pictures. The third is a 1936 case, Case No. A-8738., March 27, 1936., J.T. Jones v State.
1. thepastwhispers.com - dog_ranch
2. Family photos of Dog Ranch Hunts
3. Findlaw 1936 Case No. A-8738., March 27, 1936., J.T. Jones v State... EDWARDS, P.J. Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Alfalfa county of manslaughter in the first degree, and was sentenced to serve a term of ten years in the state penitentiary. At the time charged defendant was a caretaker of a tract of land held by the Saline Game Preserve, a corporation, hereinafter referred to as the preserve, and deceased had a farm adjoining this on the south on a part...."

If anyone has any information concerning Orville and the "Dog Ranch" at the Great Salt Plains Reservoir, near Cherokee, Oklahoma, please contact Grace Wessels (email in Mailbag section below) or leave a comment here. Thanks!
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