This little patch is right in front of Robbers Cave itself. The incline is steep enough so that kids can slide down all the way without going too fast when they get to the bottom. Adults can do that too, but prefer not to be seen so anxiously engaged in gay abandon.
| See how that tree is growing right straight up out of the
sandstone rocks? You will see hundreds more that have turned an impossible spot
into a home. The price of life comes steep. Robbers Cave is located in a
sandstone mountain formation with elevations ranging from 300 to 1500 feet. Shortleaf pine, dogwood, sycamore, sweet gum, black gum, chinapin oak, northern red oak, white oak, water oak, holly, and button brush are the predominate species here. Even in his own lifetime it was said of Buffalo Bill: "He can scarcely be said to have had a childhood, so early was he thrust among the rough scenes of frontier life, therein to play a man's part at an age when most boys think of nothing more than marbles and tops. He enlisted in the Union army before he was of age, and did his share in upholding the flag during the Civil War as ably as many a veteran of forty, and since then he has remained, for the most part, in his country's service, always ready to go to the front in any time of danger. Buffalo Bill is the one credited with avenging Custer.
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