The absence of stone posts that had caused me to almost turn around did not last long. After my pause at the lake, I would see thousands of the posts and would eventually see all sorts of things, including complete buildings, made of the stone. In Lucas, I would learn that the stone was known as greenhorn limestone, and, as evidenced by all those fence posts, is relatively easy to split.

You really need to read a biography of the extremely interesting S. P. Dinsmoor (Wikipedia version here), but here are a few highlights. He was born in Ohio, served in the Civil War, moved to Kansas with his wife and family. He retired from farming and began building the Garden of Eden at the age of 62. When his first wife died in 1917, he retrieved her body from the city cemetery and buried her under concrete in the mausoleum in the back yard where he is also is interred. He married for a second time at age 81 to a woman 59 years his junior.

The cabin was built as a tourist attraction to provide income. The gaming table is one of only a few items remaining in the cabin built by Dinsmoor.

The story goes that Dinsmoor's wife complained that she rarely saw him because he was always outside working, so he created the waving version of himself that she could see from the kitchen window.