Sometime during the late 1950s or early 1960s landowner Frank Etter set up a large, wooden teepee-shaped gift shop and attempted to turn the mound into a tourist attraction. The teepee can be seen in a postcard of the site from its tourist-attraction days (Figure 16). The gift shop sold souvenirs and trinkets, but no prehistoric artifacts. Arkansas Archeological Society member Bob Dalton (personal communication 2004) recalls visiting the site as a child sometime around 1960. At the time, the mound was being advertised as a tourist attraction on a local country music radio station, which touted not only the mound and teepee gift shop, but rides for children in a stagecoach drawn by four Shetland ponies.

Figure 16. Undated postcard of Cavanaugh
Mound with tourish-shop teepee in front.

The tourist attraction was a short-lived venture, only lasting a few seasons. The teepee gift shop was taken down sometime in the 1980s. The land on which the teepee stood is now owned by a church adjacent to the mound, and only the circular, concrete-slab foundation remains.