Just to cover some Utah historical geology, the Great Salt Lake used to be a larger lake called Bonneville, at that point some caves were formed under the lake waters.
When the Lake Receded between the Gilbert Level and the Great Salt lake level. The caves were revealed and American Indians lived in and used the caves most likely as a winter home, in their migration, around the Wasatch front.
Danger cave is locked and barred with the exception of some tours for school kids, and a yearly tour in Prehistory week once a year.... Pre history Week was last week. Down below the cave 10K years ago was a marsh which I'm sure Just Teemed with food during the winter, instead of the desert that is there now. I thought I caught a picture of the area where the marsh was, but apparently not. This is just outside of Wendover Utah.
in 1949 Jesse D Jennings excavated some of these sites, putting together some of the history of Utah Indians 10K years ago... sometimes know as the Fremont Indians. This is the definitive work on prehistoric north America(sorry Mormons, your book of crazy Fictional Magic doesn't count).
a lot of that known history which is based on the 11K years of history piled and layered on the floor of this cave.
This is Jukebox cave. Wendover Utah was a major training site for Bomber crews in WWII, and during that time one of the caves was used for dances and Movies for the soldiers. A cement Slab was laid in one of the caves.
This cave not only holds layers of Indian History, but also some charcoal paintings, I wonder if this was how Jennings knew to look for these types of caves in this area.
My favorite thing I saw was this great pull tab from a soda can Circa 1962-(1983?)
Unfortunately this one looks like a late 70's to 80's version. It was disturbed by a fellow tour participant, not knowing it's historical value.
During WWII Bomber gunners trained here. They had a Jeep which ran around this track with a target mounted above it. The track was a lot like a Slot car racer and would run on this track. The berm to the left was used to keep the bullets off the unmanned Jeep.
The berm is to the right in this picture, and outside the Hills the machine gunners would practice shooting at the moving targets which replicated moving German and Japanese fighters as they raced around the tracks.
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