Wichita Mountains – The Legend of the Iron Door Cave
Wichita Mountains – The Legend of the Iron Door Cave
Here is the video that touches briefly on the legend of the Iron Door of the Wichitas. We talk about the James-Younger gang, Silas Ison, Joe Hunter, the Brass Bucket, and more Wichita Mountain history. Most pictures and information came from Steve Wilson’s Oklahoma Treasure Tale book. For more details, check out his book. It’s a GREAT read!
Dude, words cannot express how cool this is. Sad I am just now getting to it. Great stuff and I will watch this again myself!
I know wear it’s at
Amazing video. Thanks for sharing. Cheers from the top of the mountain.
Good one!
Good story boys!
I have a problem with the iron door, the cars and doors were made of wood well into the 1900 hundreds. If one did exist it would have rusted and would not shine in the sun light.
You are not gonna believe this. But I am one of those little boys from 1996 in indiahoma
We gotta get out there and do some hunting?
Yeeees🙌🙌🙌 I woke up this morning wondering about the history😉😉 thanks Steven🙌🙌
I’m really enjoying your videos. Are you aware of a good map with all these sites on it?
Well done and the youngsters do a great job. Through my teenage years in the early to mid 1970s me and a friend roamed all over the Witchitas. Not looking for the Iron Door, but not forgetting that it might come into view.
My grandfather told me a story about him finding a cave with an iron door but not in that area. This was north of Wister Oklahoma. He told me the area he saw the door but I never went looking. That was about 40 years ago. If interested I would be happy to pass the story on to whoever is interested.
Thanks for the history lesson. I really enjoyed it. The creative film-style with your boys adds much to the story telling.
I’ll come down from Stillwater and search it with you!
This is great. I love Charon’s Gardens – one of my very favorite places.
This is all a lie, Joe Hunter was a fabricator.
I’ve heard of it being in n central Arkansas
SWEET! I wanted to include a note about this folklore in my video but don’t really know the details. I subscribed to your channel. Awesome!
Joe hunter killed the boy for his map because he refused to give it up so him and his father killed the boy, he came apon a camp after running frome the law with his best friend , they separated and the young man came across the camp when he was welcomed in with a not so nice Manor and threw to the ground, he tried to escape but he was captured before leaving the camp sight and stabbed by a kid around 10, after he was stabbed he tried to run then ended up back in the tent, as the young man fell the the ground, Joe hunters father said something to him while he was slowly dieing, I can’t remember what he said but he was drunk for sure
Well done; thanks for posting.
I’ve heard this story so many times…
Jessie was not murdered, he murdered another guy for the purpose of faking his death. So Jessie got any gold he hid.
Dude…great video man! Very informative!
Great Story… Is it true that the Civilian Conservation Corps were responsible for much of the development in the wildlife refuge???
Thanks for the subscribe. I really enjoy y’alls content. Where are you based? I’m looking to make more local (TX) connections for meetups on future backpacking/camping trips, and hoping to do a TX backpackers/Youtuber’s meetup next year.
You do know that Jesse James’ sister and her husband lived on a section about 6 miles south of Wichita Falls, Tx. Her last name was Parmer and Jesse visited her several times.