Geronimo and Wildlife Refuge
My Day
Trip to Lawton
with My Father
Story by: Brandon Allshouse
My father decided to take a day off from work to take a trip with me down to Fort Sill
near Lawton to
see the museum and where Geronimo was in prison before his death, plus see his
grave. On our way down, we ran into
a bad thunderstorm which almost caused us to want to turn around and head back
to OKC but decided to push on thinking the storm would quit….eventually.
As we got near Lawton, there was a long
line of cars going slow on the highway.
As it turned out, there was some construction just past the exit we
needed to take to go to the military fort that’s still in use.
After we got past the security gate at Fort Sill, we pretty much got lost trying to find the Fort
Sill
Museum.
After about 30 minutes or so, we found the stockade where Geronimo’s jail
cell is. Dad and I walked around
looking at old guns that were used in World War II, Korea,
and Vietnam.
We eventually found the museum but with some help from another person who
was walking around. While at the
museum, we got directions to Geronimo’s gravesite.
The cemetery was actually quite cool.
After we were done with Fort Sill, we went north to the Wichita
Mountain Wildlife Refuge. We saw
some buffalo, but not too many. We
did see several deer. One looked
injured to where it was going to be some cougar’s dinner that night.
We saw a lot of longhorn cattle. We
even saw one with her calf near the road.
It was fun seeing all these animals in an environment similar to Yellowstone National Park.
Dad and I drove up Mt. Scott
and looked around while on top of the summit.
Afterwards, we drove to Meers to see a famous restaurant there.
After Meers, we headed back to Oklahoma City.
The weather was really cool the entire trip.
It rained a lot coming down but as soon as we entered Fort Sill,
the rain just stopped for the most part to where we could go walk around and be
totally comfortable.
Here is a
link to
the pictures the good time we had
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