A Yard Full of Corn: The Pitts-Wells Elevator in 1907
A 1907 photograph of the Pitts-Wells corn yard leads from wooden storage cribs to railroad shipments—and a much smaller corn harvest in our own backyard.
The Lightning Cave of the Black Mesa
A Cave That Calls the Storms In the far western reaches of Oklahoma, where the land rises into the rugged Black Mesa, there is said to be a cave unlike any other—a cave that draws lightning from the sky. For centuries, travelers and locals have reported seeing bolts of lightning striking the same rocky outcrop […]