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|footnotes='''Notes''':<br>
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* Myna Potts is a spokesperson for the historical preservation of [[rural]] areas, particularly the Medicine Mound [[ghost town]] in Hardeman County, [[Texas]].<br>
* Myna Potts is a spokesperson for the historical preservation of [[rural]] areas, particularly the Medicine Mound [[ghost town]] in Hardeman County, [[Texas]].<br>
*Potts turned her father's former Hicks-Cobb General Store into a museum with non-profit status as a 501 (c) (3) public charity.<br>
*Potts turned her father's former Hicks-Cobb General Store into a museum with non-profit status as a 501 (c 3) public charity.<br>
* Potts recalls Medicine Mound in its heyday as "rural America, and it was complete. We had everything we needed right here. . . ."
* Potts recalls Medicine Mound in its heyday as "rural America, and it was complete. We had everything we needed right here. . . ."
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'''Myna Gayle Hicks Potts''' (born March 30, 1927) is an historical preservationist from Chillicothe in Hardeman County in west [[Texas]], who is the curator]] of the Medicine Mound Museum in the nearby ghost town of Medicine Mound, Only two buildings remain in the town. Medicine Mound has received non-profit status and has been placed in the domain of the Downtown Medicine Mound Preservation Group, a 501(c 3) public charity.<ref>Guidestar, Downtown Medicine Mound Preservation Group:http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?partner=justgivews&ein=11-3788422</ref>
'''Myna Gayle Hicks Potts''' (born March 30, 1927) is an historical preservationist from Chillicothe in Hardeman County in west [[Texas]], who is the curator of the Medicine Mound Museum in the nearby ghost town of Medicine Mound. Only two buildings remain in the town. Medicine Mound has received non-profit status and has been placed in the domain of the Downtown Medicine Mound Preservation Group, a 501(c 3) public charity.<ref>Guidestar, Downtown Medicine Mound Preservation Group:http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?partner=justgivews&ein=11-3788422</ref>
==Medicine Mounds==
==Medicine Mounds==
Medicine Mound is near four [[dolomite]] hills known as '''Medicine Mounds.''' which are considered sacred by the Comanche and Kiowa Indians who believe that the landmarks contain mystical spirits to improve the quality of their lives. The mounds are on private property and not available for public tours beyond an outer five-mile limit. One can see for approximately fifty miles from the top of the mounds.<ref name=memories>"Memories of the Mounds", website of Downtown Medicine Mound Preservation Group:http://www.medicinemound.com/themounds.htm</ref>
Medicine Mound is near four [[dolomite]] hills known as '''Medicine Mounds.''' which are considered sacred by the Comanche and Kiowa Indians who believe that the landmarks contain mystical spirits to improve the quality of their lives. The mounds are on private property and not available for public tours beyond an outer five-mile limit. One can see for approximately fifty miles from the top of the mounds.<ref name=memories>"Memories of the Mounds", website of Downtown Medicine Mound Preservation Group:http://www.medicinemound.com/themounds.htm</ref>
John A. Bates of Ferndale in Oakland County, [[Michigan]], near [[Detroit]], the former executive director of the Downtown Medicine Mound Preservation Group<ref>Texas Association of Museums website:http://www.museumsusa.org/directory/info/2314110</ref> and a cousin of Myna Potts, recalls having visited the ghost town when he was a boy: "The Comanche would come to the Medicine Mounds for their healing powers, often trading flint and other goods and racing their ponies around the mound below us. . . . We carefully descended about seventy-five feet or so to an almost imperceptible track that circled the entire mound, which was used by Quanah Parker's braves to test their horsemanship. [In 1966], this 'track' was still quite visible, especially for a young man with a fertile imagination. Sadly, it is slowly disappearing as the young [[cedar]] trees begin to reclaim the ground."<ref name=memories/>
John A. Bates of Ferndale in Oakland County, near [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], the former executive director of the Downtown Medicine Mound Preservation Group<ref>Texas Association of Museums website:http://www.museumsusa.org/directory/info/2314110</ref> and a cousin of Myna Potts, recalls having visited Medicine Mount when he was a boy: "The Comanche would come to the Medicine Mounds for their healing powers, often trading flint and other goods and racing their ponies around the mound below us. . . . We carefully descended about seventy-five feet or so to an almost imperceptible track that circled the entire mound, which was used by Quanah Parker's braves to test their horsemanship. [In 1966], this 'track' was still quite visible, especially for a young man with a fertile imagination. Sadly, it is slowly disappearing as the young [[cedar]] trees begin to reclaim the ground."<ref name=memories/>
The four mounds, which range in elevation from two hundred to five hundred feet, were Comanche campsites and ceremonial grounds. The mounds had abundant spring water which encouraged [[hunting]], the gathering of medicinal plants, and for worship. The Comanche Nation still considers two of these mounds to be sacred: the tallest, Medicine Mound, and the second tallest, Cedar Mound. The Indians return to these sites to gather plants and [[herbs]] and to seek spiritual guidance.<ref>"The Skipper's Report", U.S. Merchant Marine:http://bhirdo.net/2007_October_Liberty_Log.pdf</ref>
The four mounds, which range in elevation from two hundred to five hundred feet, were Comanche campsites and ceremonial grounds. The mounds had abundant spring water which encouraged [[hunting]], the gathering of medicinal plants, and for worship. The Comanche Nation still considers two of these mounds to be sacred: the tallest, Medicine Mound, and the second tallest, Cedar Mound. The Indians return to these sites to gather plants and [[herbs]] and to seek spiritual guidance.<ref>"The Skipper's Report", U.S. Merchant Marine:http://bhirdo.net/2007_October_Liberty_Log.pdf</ref>