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This monumental iron sculpture
was created by Joe Barrington from Throckmorton,
Texas. It is located on the grounds of the Cimarron
Heritage Center on Highway 287 just north
of town. Two local amateur paleontologists,
Bob and Norma Gene Young, financed this project.
It is a life-sized model of an Apatosaurus,
based upon bones that were excavated by a Dr.
Stovall in 1931 about eight miles east of Kenton,
Oklahoma. This sculpture is 65 feet long, 35
feet tall, and it weighs an impressive 18,000
pounds. The "dinosaur" was nicknamed
"Cimmy" by a Boise City elementary
school student.
Another interesting fact: Boise
City (Boise rhymes with "voice") and
it is the only town in the continental United
States that has ever been bombed. On July 5,
1943 an Air Force B-17 mistook the lights around
the courthouse square for their intended target
-- a bombing range about thirty miles to the
southeast. Boise City is also the site of the
World Champion Post Hole Digging Contest each
June during the Santa
Fe Trail Daze.
Location:
Cimarron Heritage Center
1300 N. Cimarron Avenue
Boise City, OK 73933
[Map]
Photographed by
Gerald
Thurman 6/9/07
Posted on RoadTrip America 6/07
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