Top 10 Western Museums of 2007
...and turmoil in the Southwest.
By: Johnny D. Boggs 04/01/2007
7. Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum (Canyon, TX)
Most museums would find the task of covering 500 million years of history across 26,000 square miles daunting, but the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum makes it look easy, and inviting. How? Well, 22 galleries focus on topics such as geology, paleontology, petroleum, art, 15th- to 20th-century firearms, transportation and people dating back more than 14,000 years. Other offerings include the Art Deco Pioneer Hall, a re-created pioneer town and the 1877 T-Anchor Ranch House of Charlie Goodnight fame, the oldest surviving house in the Texas Panhandle. And we’re just getting started. Hey, three million artifacts can’t be wrong.
806-651-2244 • panhandleplains.org
CANYON: Artist Georgia O’Keeffe had a few meals at the Hudspeth House B&B back when she was teaching (1917-19) at what’s now West Texas A&M University. Up in Amarillo, the Big Texan provides Texas-size steaks, even a famous 72-ouncer. Palo Duro Canyon, an 18,483-acre state park, is the site of Ranald Mackenzie’s 1874 attack that ended the Comanche threat, and an old Charles Goodnight hangout.
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