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Show Apache Indian Made Pocket Money by Skillful Riding CACHE, OKLA. Old timers who came to Cache shortly after statehood recall the wild and woolly days when the Apache Indians in southwestern Oklahoma Okla-homa outnumbered the white men. Earl Drummond, Cache pioneer, pio-neer, remembers that one "adopted" "adopt-ed" Apache named Phony Red was a white man raised by the Indian tribe. To make his spending spend-ing money Phony Red would talk the white men into placing a dime in the middle of the town's main street. Phony Red would race his horse at full speed down the dirt road, bend and scoop up the dime. "He never missed," Drummond Drum-mond says, "and a dime would buy something in those days." I |