Ketch Ranch House (Oklahoma) Explained

Ketch Ranch House
Coordinates:34.7049°N -98.5729°W
Mapframe-Zoom:12
Building Type:Bungalow
Address:Running Deer Camp Road
Location City:Medicine Park, Oklahoma
Location Country:United States of America
Groundbreaking Date:May 1923
Completion Date:1924
Cost:$4500.00
Roof:Shingle
Material:Cobblestone
Floor Count:One
Floor Area:2146square feet
Grounds Area:5145acres
Known For:Cobblestone architecture
Rooms:Six

Ketch Ranch House or Ketch Ranch was private property located in the Wichita Mountains of Southwestern Oklahoma.[1] During the early 1920s, the forest reserve residence was established as a working ranch and vacation home for Ada May Ketch and Frank Levant Ketch who served as mayor of Ringling, Oklahoma.[2]

The Wichita Mountains ranch offered a barn, guest house, smokehouse, springhouse, root cellar, and the vital rural house structure located near Blue Beaver Valley Road.[3] The nature reserve residence provided outdoor experiences with hiking, horseback riding, boating, and fishing at Ketch Lake which was close proximity being 1miles west of the Ketch Ranch House.

Ada May Ketch purchased the Wichita Mountain acreage on May 8, 1923, from S.P. Thornhill through the property holdings of First National Bank of Lawton. The Ketch Ranch was developed during the economic prosperity years of the Roaring Twenties which simultaneously encompassed the creation of Oklahoma Senator Elmer Thomas's River Rock Resort better known as Medicine Park, Oklahoma.[4] [5]

By 1932, the Ketch Ranch estate was affected by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. In 1934, the estate was sold on a joint extension agreement to the Monte Vista Ranch enterprise whereas the Ketch family retained the Wichita Mountains reserve residence.

On January 10, 1941, the United States government acquired the Monte Vista Ranch property through the provisions of Declaration of Taking Act and United States Constitution Fifth Amendment. The United States congressional legislation authorized the land expansion of the Fort Sill Military Reservation while protecting the United States national security given the ascension of the Axis powers of 1930s and the commencement of World War II.

Case Law and Jake L. Hamon, Sr. Estate

See also: Teapot Dome scandal. Frank Ketch served as the business administrator for the Jake L. Hamon Sr. estate.[6] Jake Hamon Sr. was a prominent committee member of the Republican Party where Warren Harding had appealed for Mr. Hamon to accompany his presidential cabinet as the next United States Secretary of the Interior.[7]

Mr. Hamon governed a diverse portfolio of holdings and ownership in oil and gas lease properties geographically apportioned in South Central Oklahoma. The petroleum assets were devised in the crude oil fields of Healdton, Oklahoma and Hewitt, Oklahoma.[8] [9] [10]

By 1920, Jake L. Hamon Properties invested in the Breckenridge oilfields of Stephens County geographically apportioned in North Texas decisively exemplary of the 1920s Texas oil boom and interwar period.[11] [12] [13]

During 1921, the Jake L. Hamon investments were appraised at three million U.S. dollars considering a brief eight-year period of time after discovering a prosperous 1914 blowout in the Healdton oilfield.[14]

Native American culture of Wichita Mountains

The Ketch Ranch estate was established approximately 4miles to 6miles northeast of Craterville Park, Oklahoma.[15] Craterville Park was established after the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache land openings coinciding with Oklahoma statehood as confirmed on November 16, 1907.[16] [17] [18] [19]

In 1907, cowboy naturalist Frank Rush, a native of Blackburn, Oklahoma, served as the superintendent of the Wichita Forest and Game Reserve.[20] [21] Mr. Rush attained local and statewide recognition for the railway transport facilitation and safeguard of the near extinct American bison during October of 1907.[22] [23] [24]

The Plains bison herd was granted to the state of Oklahoma by the Bronx Zoological Gardens and New York Zoological Society.[25] The bison re-establishment substantiated the ecological principles of conservation in the United States while supporting habitat conservation within the nature reserve. The buffalo grazing grounds have a proximity to the Holy City of the Wichitas Historic District built by the Works Progress Administration from 1934 to 1936.[26] [27]

The American bison collection was a species reintroduction to the native lands of the southwest Indian Territory within the Wichita National Forest federal lands during the fourth quarter of the 1907 calendar year.[28] [29]

In 1924, the Apache, Comanche, and Kiowa vowed to a pledge known as the Craterville Park Covenant with Wichita National Forest Preserve curator Frank Rush.[30] The Wichita Mountains mixed grass prairie served for the local tribal pow wow events during the Craterville Park Indian Fair from 1924 to 1933.[31] [32]

At the transition of the twentieth century, the Quanah Parker Star House was located south of the Quanah Mountain summit or Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge.[33] The Star House was situated west of Craterville Park and Oklahoma State Highway 115 approximately 2miles north of Cache, Oklahoma or U.S. Route 62 in Oklahoma.[34] [35]

The Southern Plains villagers immeasurable presence cultivated a historical perspective of the tribal culture and tribal sovereignty for the last of the 19th century Plains Indians tribal chiefs. During the final decade of the nineteenth century, the Southwest Oklahoma native tribes began embracing the ceremonial practices of the Native American Church while residing in the Great Plains of Southwestern Oklahoma and the Wichita Mountains.[36] [37] [38]

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Notes and References

  1. Ketch Ranch, Oklahoma
  2. News: Mayor Frank Ketch Returns to Ringling . February 2, 1916 . Former Lawton Resident Here as Witness in the District Court Tuesday . The Lawton News . 14 . 151 . Lawton, Oklahoma . . Oklahoma Historical Society.
  3. Blue Beaver Creek, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  4. River Rock Resort: Medicine Park's Landscape and Wichita Mountain Vernacular Architecture . McCormick . Peter J. . 1997 . . 75 . 3 – Fall 1997 . Oklahoma Historical Society . 23027299 . 655582328 . 244–261.
  5. Book: Lott, David C. . [{{google books|yrIAo9K30CwC|plainurl=y}} Medicine Park: Oklahoma's First Resort ]. June 14, 2010 . Arcadia Publishing . Images of America . 47–78 . 978-0738577456 . 646185401 .
  6. News: Ketch is Charged Violating Trust . July 16, 1922 . Administrator of Hamon's Estate Under Fire in Petition . The Lawton News . 20 . 45 . Lawton, Oklahoma . . Oklahoma Historical Society.
  7. Jake Hamon: "The Man Who Made Harding President" . Floyd . Larry C. . 2009 . . 87 . 3 – Fall 2009 . Oklahoma Historical Society . 23027299 . 655582328 . 294–319.
  8. Web site: Hamon, Jake L., Ardmore, Oklahoma . International Petroleum Register; A Yearly Directory of the Active Oil Companies of the World . 1921 . HaithTrust Digital Library . New York City . Oil Trade Journal . 313.
  9. Web site: Healdton Field . The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture . Oklahoma Historical Society.
  10. Web site: Hewitt Field . The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture . Oklahoma Historical Society.
  11. Ketch Denies J.B. French Purchased the Hamon Holdings in North Texas . July 7, 1921 . Oil and Gas News . IX . 21 . HathiTrust Digital Library . Kansas City, Missouri . Oil and Gas News Publishing Company . 3.
  12. Web site: Map of Stephens County: An "Official" Accurate Oil Map up to Date Made and Sold by Orlopp-Orlopp . 1920 . The Portal to Texas History . University of North Texas.
  13. Web site: JimKurn – The Newest Town in Texas . October 2, 1920 . Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex), Vol. 1, No. 82, Ed. 1 . The Portal to Texas History . University of North Texas.
  14. Hamon's Estate Appraised at $3,143,903 . February 16, 1921 . National Petroleum News . XIII . 1 . HathiTrust Digital Library . Cleveland, Ohio . National Petroleum Publishing Company . 46.
  15. Craterville Park, Oklahoma
  16. Web site: Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Opening . The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture . Oklahoma Historical Society.
  17. Web site: Proclamation 460 – Opening of Wichita, Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indian Lands in Oklahoma . McKinley . William . July 4, 1901 . The American Presidency Project . University of California – Santa Barbara.
  18. Web site: Delegation of Comanche. Kiowa, and Apache, including Quanah Parker . Tulsa, Oklahoma . Gilcrease Museum.
  19. Web site: Kiowa and Comanche Documents . Tulsa, Oklahoma . Gilcrease Museum.
  20. Web site: Photograph of Frank Rush, Superintendent of the Wichita Wildlife Reservation . The Gateway to Oklahoma History . Oklahoma Historical Society.
  21. News: Greer . Frank H. . September 21, 1907 . Buffalo Will Winter in Oklahoma Fields . The Weekly Oklahoma State Capital . Newspaper . English . 19 . 22 . 1 . Guthrie, Oklahoma . Oklahoma Historical Society . sn86064192 . 13771094 . 2.
  22. News: Niblack . Leslie G. . October 5, 1907 . Rush in Charge of Oklahoma Buffalo . The Guthrie Daily Leader . Newspaper . English . 29 . 132 . 1 . Guthrie, Oklahoma . Oklahoma Historical Society . sn86063952 . 13748544 . 1.
  23. News: Falkenbury . M.C. . October 11, 1907 . Bison for Oklahoma . Miami Record-Herald . Newspaper . English . 15 . 47 . 1 . Miami, Indian Territory . Oklahoma Historical Society . sn86064102 . 13686197 . 3.
  24. News: Greer . Frank H. . October 12, 1907 . Buffalo Are On The Way . The Weekly Oklahoma State Capital . Newspaper . English . 19 . 25 . 1 . Guthrie, Oklahoma . Oklahoma Historical Society . sn86064192 . 13771094 . 3.
  25. Web site: Bison Bellows: Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge . National Park Service . U.S. Department of the Interior.
  26. Web site: Holy City of the Wichitas . O'Dell . Larry . Holy City Of The Wichitas Pageant . The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture . Oklahoma Historical Society.
  27. Web site: Works Progress Administration . Mullins . William H. . The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture . Oklahoma Historical Society.
  28. News: Niblack . Leslie G. . October 14, 1907 . Buffalo Coming to Oklahoma . The Guthrie Daily Leader . Newspaper . English . 29 . 139 . 1 . Guthrie, Oklahoma . Oklahoma Historical Society . sn86063952 . 13748544 . 1, 4.
  29. News: Williams . J. Roy . Bixby . T. M. . October 17, 1907 . Buffalo Expected Today Coming By Express . Lawton Constitution-Democrat . Newspaper . English . 6 . 23 . 1 . Lawton, Oklahoma . Oklahoma Historical Society . sn96087819 . 34790531 . 8.
  30. Web site: Chief Brave Bear and Frank Rush of Craterville Park, Oklahoma . Tulsa, Oklahoma . Gilcrease Museum.
  31. Web site: Craterville Park Indian Fair . The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture . Oklahoma Historical Society.
  32. Web site: Pow Wows . The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture . Oklahoma Historical Society.
  33. Quanah Parker's Star House: A Comanche Home Along the White Man's Road . Floyd . Larry C. . . March 20, 2024 . 90 . 2 - Summer 2012 . Oklahoma Historical Society . 23027299 . 655582328 . 132–159.
  34. Web site: Home of Quanah Parker near Cache, Okla. . Arthur R. Lawrence Collection . Lawton, Oklahoma . Museum of the Great Plains.
  35. Web site: Home of Quanah Parker in the Wichita Mountain, The Comanche White House . Tulsa, Oklahoma . Gilcrease Museum.
  36. Web site: Indian Religion ~ Peyote Rite . Tulsa, Oklahoma . Gilcrease Museum.
  37. Web site: Peyote Tradition . Tulsa, Oklahoma . Gilcrease Museum.
  38. Web site: Native American Religion ~ Peyote Ceremony . Tulsa, Oklahoma . Gilcrease Museum.

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