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caves for the most part are a paradise for sufferers from hay fever, since the under-ground air lacks pollen and is free of dust unless human beings stir it up...

   “Nevertheless, there are persistent though unconfirmed reports that Kiser Cave between Fredricksburg and Mason Texas, pours out a steady stream of carbon dioxide from its mouth."

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#18 --- The following is part of a Kiowa Indian legend which has its setting in the Wichita Mts. of SW Oklahoma. The story can be found on pages 138-139 of the book "AMERICAN INDIAN MYTHOLOGY", by Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachlin:

   "...Then the white men hired hunters to do nothing but kill the buffalo. Up and down the plains those men ranged, shooting sometimes as many as a hundred buffalo a day. Behind them came the skinners with their wagons. They piled the hides and bones into the wagons until they were full, and then took their loads to the new railroad stations that were being built, to be shipped east to the market. Sometimes there would be a pile of bones as high as a man, stretching a mile along the railroad track.

   The buffalo saw that their day was over. They could protect their people no longer. Sadly, the last remnant of the great herd gathered in council, and decided what they would do.

   The Kiowas were camped on the north side of Mount Scott, those of them who were still free to camp. One young woman got up very early in the morning. The dawn mist was still rising from Medicine Creek, and as she looked across the water, peering through the haze, she saw the last buffalo herd appear like a spirit dream.