Ketch Ranch House (Oklahoma)

Ketch Ranch House
Ketch Ranch House
	Ketch Ranch House Ketch Ranch in Oklahoma Ketch Ranch House Ketch Ranch House (the United States)
Alternative names	Circle K Ranch (1929); Monte Vista Ranch (1932);
General information
Type	Bungalow
Architectural style	American Craftsman
Location	Comanche County, Oklahoma; Fort Sill Military Reservation;
Address	Running Deer Camp Road
Town or city	Medicine Park, Oklahoma
Country	United States of America
Coordinates	34°42′18″N 98°34′22″W / 34.7048714°N 98.5728528°W
Groundbreaking	May 1923
Completed	1924
Cost	$4500.00
Owner	Ada May Ketch; Frank Levant Ketch;
Height
Roof	Shingle
Technical details
Material	Cobblestone
Floor count	One
Floor area	2,146 square feet (199.4 m2)
Grounds	5,145 acres (2,082 ha)
Known for	Cobblestone architecture
Other information
Number of rooms	Six

Ketch Ranch House or Ketch Ranch was private property located in the Wichita Mountains of Southwestern Oklahoma.^[1] The ranch was established as a working ranch and vacation home for Ada May Ketch and Frank Levant Ketch during the early 1920s. The Wichita Mountain ranch offered a guest house, barn, smokehouse, springhouse, and root cellar while providing outdoor experiences with horseback riding, boating, and fishing at Ketch Lake which was close proximity of 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Ketch Ranch House.^[2]

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.^[3]

By 1932, the Ketch Ranch estate began to acknowledge the financial crisis coerced 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 Mountain ranch. On January 10, 1941, the United States government acquired the Monte Vista Ranch property through the provisions of Declaration of Taking Act authorizing a land expansion of the Fort Sill Military Reservation while protecting the United States national security at the commencement of World War II.

Case Law and Jake L. Hamon, Sr. Estate

Frank Ketch served as the business enterprise administrator for the Jake L. Hamon Sr. estate.^[4]^[5]^[6] Mr. Hamon governed holdings and ownership of capitalist properties in the crude oil fields of Healdton, Oklahoma, Hewitt, Oklahoma, and Stephens County, North Texas exemplary of the 1920s economic opportunism and interwar period.^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]

Court Cases of Jake L. Hamon, Sr. Estate

Text of Hamon v. State, 67 Okla. 128, (Supreme Court of Oklahoma 1917) is available from: Justia
Text of Hamon v. Keyes, 99 Okla. 19, (Supreme Court of Oklahoma 1924) is available from: Justia
Text of Ketch v. Weaver Bros, 261 S.W. 380, (Texas Appeals 1924) is available from: CourtListener Casetext Casemine
Text of Ketch v. Cox, 105 Okla. 283, (Supreme Court of Oklahoma 1925) is available from: CourtListener Justia Casemine
Text of Apple v. Given, 117 Okla. 79, (Supreme Court of Oklahoma 1925) is available from: CourtListener Justia Casemine
Text of Apple v. Hert, 122 Okla. 153, (Supreme Court of Oklahoma 1927) is available from: Justia
Text of Apple v. McCain, 127 Okla. 147, (Supreme Court of Oklahoma 1927) is available from: Justia
Text of Ketch v. Smith, 131 Okla. 263, (Supreme Court of Oklahoma 1928) is available from: Justia

Pictorial Biography

Ketch Ranch House ~ Fort Sill Military Reservation
Cobblestone columns at driveway entrance
Cobblestone retaining wall at driveway entrance
Cobblestone architecture detail of Ketch Ranch House
Ketch Ranch House exterior structure near Medicine Park
Ketch Ranch House exterior structure near Medicine Park
Ketch Ranch House exterior structure near Medicine Park
Ketch Ranch House exterior structure near Medicine Park
Ketch Ranch House exterior structure near Medicine Park
Ketch Ranch House exterior of front porch structure
Ketch Ranch House interior of kitchen area
Ketch Ranch House interior of bedroom area

Native American Culture of Wichita Mountains

The Ketch Ranch estate was established approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) to 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Craterville Park, Oklahoma.^[11]^[12]^[13]

In 1924, the Apache, Comanche, and Kiowa tribes pledged the Craterville Park Covenant with Comanche County rancher Frank Rush.^[14]^[15] The Wichita Mountains mixed grass prairie served for the local tribal pow wow events during the Craterville Park Indian Fair from 1924 to 1933.^[16]^[17]

The Craterville Park Covenant
The object of this Fair will be to create self-confidence and to encourage leadership by the Indian for his people, to better his position, and to take his place on terms of equality with other races in the competitive pursuits of every day life, and a desire to accomplish the most possible for himself and his people.^[18]
May 25, 1924

The Quanah Parker Star House was located directly west of Craterville Park on Oklahoma State Highway 115 approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Cache, Oklahoma or U.S. Route 62 in Oklahoma.^[19] The Wichita Mountain's Native American culture cultivated a historical perspective for the last of the 19th century Native American tribal chiefs residing in the Great Plains of Southwestern Oklahoma.^[20]

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ketch Ranch
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ketch Lake
^ Lott, David C. (June 14, 2010). Medicine Park: Oklahoma's First Resort. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 47–78. ISBN 978-0738577456. OCLC 646185401.
^ Hamon's Estate Appraised at $3,143,903. Vol. XIII. Cleveland, Ohio: National Petroleum Publishing Company. February 16, 1921. p. 46. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
^ "Hamon, Jake L., Ardmore, Okla" [International Petroleum Register; A Yearly Directory of the Active Oil Companies of the World]. HaithTrust. New York City, New York: Oil Trade Journal. 1921. p. 313.
^ Ketch Denies J.B. French Purchased the Hamon Holdings in North Texas. Vol. IX. Kansas City, Missouri: Oil and Gas News Publishing Company. July 7, 1921. p. 3. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
^ "Healdton Field". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.
^ "Hewitt Field". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.
^ "JimKurn - The Newest Town in Texas" [Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex), Vol. 1, No. 82, Ed. 1]. The Portal to Texas History. University of North Texas. October 2, 1920.
^ "Ranger, Desdemona, and Breckenridge Oilfields". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association.
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Craterville Park
^ "Springer Amendment". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.
^ "Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Opening". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.
^ "The Craterville Park Covenant". Museum of the Great Plains. Southwest Wilds & Waters. 1924.
^ "Chief Brave Bear and Frank Rush of Craterville Park, Oklahoma". Tulsa, Oklahoma: Gilcrease Museum.
^ "Craterville Park Indian Fair". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.
^ "Pow Wows". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.
^ "Craterville Park Pictorial Biography". Frank Rush Collection ~ Western History Collections. University of Oklahoma.
^ "Quanah Parker (ca. 1852–1911)". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.
^ "Native American Church". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.

Periodical Bibliography

"Says Jake Hamon Told Woman to Flee; Clara Smith's Attorneys Assert She First Heard of Death at El Paso". The New York Times. December 25, 1920.
"Court Recessed at Noon; Mrs. Jake Hamon to Testify". United States Library of Congress. The Daily Ardmoreite. March 13, 1921.
"Mrs. Hamon and Ketch on Stand in Murder Case". United States Library of Congress. Grand Forks Herald. March 14, 1921.
"Ketch Declares Hamon Wanted Clara to Leave" [Business Manager of Hamon Interests Relates Conversations]. The Portal to Texas History. Brownwood Bulletin. March 14, 1921.
"State to Rest Its Case Today". United States Library of Congress. The Morning Tulsa Daily World. March 14, 1921.
"Hamon's Widow Testifies at Trial". The New York Times. March 15, 1921.

Petroleum Industry Bibliography

Jake Hamon, Oil Man of Oklahoma, Is Shot. Vol. XII. Cleveland, Ohio: National Petroleum Publishing Company. November 24, 1920. p. 32. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
Gunshot Wound Proves Fatal to Jake Hamon. Vol. XII. Cleveland, Ohio: National Petroleum Publishing Company. December 1, 1920. p. 36. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)

External links

"Ketch Ranch House ~ Fort Sill Military Reservation, Building 7775" [Historic American Buildings Survey ~ HABS No. OK-66] (PDF). Medicine Park, Comanche County, Oklahoma: United States Library of Congress.
"Ketch Ranch (Fort Sill Military Reservation, Building 7775)" (PDF). HABS No. OK-66. United States Library of Congress.
"Ketch Ranch House". Photo, Print, Drawing. United States Library of Congress.
"Ketch Lake Dam at Fort Sill, Oklahoma Project Profile" (PDF). BASF Master Builders Solutions. 2010.
Anderson, H. Allen. "Wichita Falls, Ranger, and Fort Worth Railroad". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association.
Anderson, H. Allen. "Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association.
"Clara Smith Hamon in Fort Worth, Texas; Ms. Hamon Surrendered to Answer Murder Charges". United States Library of Congress. 1920. LCCN 2001695112.

[1] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ketch Ranch

[2] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ketch Lake

[3] Lott, David C. (June 14, 2010). Medicine Park: Oklahoma's First Resort. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 47–78. ISBN 978-0738577456. OCLC 646185401.

[4] Hamon's Estate Appraised at $3,143,903. Vol. XIII. Cleveland, Ohio: National Petroleum Publishing Company. February 16, 1921. p. 46. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)

[5] "Hamon, Jake L., Ardmore, Okla" [International Petroleum Register; A Yearly Directory of the Active Oil Companies of the World]. HaithTrust. New York City, New York: Oil Trade Journal. 1921. p. 313.

[6] Ketch Denies J.B. French Purchased the Hamon Holdings in North Texas. Vol. IX. Kansas City, Missouri: Oil and Gas News Publishing Company. July 7, 1921. p. 3. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)

[7] "Healdton Field". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.

[8] "Hewitt Field". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.

[9] "JimKurn - The Newest Town in Texas" [Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex), Vol. 1, No. 82, Ed. 1]. The Portal to Texas History. University of North Texas. October 2, 1920.

[10] "Ranger, Desdemona, and Breckenridge Oilfields". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association.

[11] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Craterville Park

[12] "Springer Amendment". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.

[13] "Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Opening". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.

[14] "The Craterville Park Covenant". Museum of the Great Plains. Southwest Wilds & Waters. 1924.

[15] "Chief Brave Bear and Frank Rush of Craterville Park, Oklahoma". Tulsa, Oklahoma: Gilcrease Museum.

[16] "Craterville Park Indian Fair". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.

[17] "Pow Wows". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.

[18] "Craterville Park Pictorial Biography". Frank Rush Collection ~ Western History Collections. University of Oklahoma.

[19] "Quanah Parker (ca. 1852–1911)". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.

[20] "Native American Church". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.

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