Hotel Turned Museum Preserves Fort Stockton History
The Annie Riggs Memorial Museum in Fort Stockton preserves the town’s late 19th and early 20th century life. Housed in the former Annie Riggs Hotel built in 1899 and donated in 1955, it showcases rooms named Indian and Cowboy, a Buzz room with Judge Herman Butz’s office, and period furnishings from a German mirror to a Sibley stove.
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Stockton
Annie Riggs
Fort Stockton
New West
Herman Butz
Fort ‘Stockton
Germany
Kentucky
Midland museum thrives as desert oasis of art and history
The Museum of the Southwest in Midland Texas grows from a 1965 charter and 1968 site deed to a $200000 planetarium opening. Ronald Deane, 28, leads a small staff and volunteers to host 130000 visitors and 88 exhibits including local cowboy life and Smithsonian loans.
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Kelly Estes
Midland
Museum of the Southwest
West Texas
Austin
Permian Basin
Service ‘League
Turner
Midland County
N.A. Lancaster
Ronald Deane
Deane
Brigham Young University
Smithsonian
Mose Was Always Cowboy At Heart
Farwell Texas feature on Mose Glasscock a lifetime cowboy who grew up near Seymour and Muleshoe He recalls riding to school and never walking his horse remained his trusted transport His dream to ride and brand cattle led him through Hashknife and VVNI ranches with ropers Cotton Tate Roy Stevens and others shaping a life of cattle work and filming during branding season
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Janie Crane
Farwell
M. ‘Mose
Glasscock
Seymour
WVN Ranch
Will Rogers
Rogers
VVNI
Nina Bruce
Ropers
Cotton
Brazos
VVN
Glasscocks
Pecan Partners Turn Chips Into Profits In Roswell
Clayton Stallings and Dewey Johnson convert a Roswell residence into a pecan cracking and processing plant. They process about 12 000 pounds last year with a 20 000 pound goal for this year, using mechanical crackers sizers blowers and a small crew to clean grade and pack nut meats for bakeries and food firms.
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Roswell
Clayton Stallings
Dewey Johnson
Nike
Stallings
Thomas Harrison
Johnson
Horse Fete To Resume In Odessa
The 1973 Sand Hill Hereford Quarter Horse Show and World Championship Rodeo resume in Odessa after a holiday break with a Tuesday parade at 4 p.m. and nightly rodeo events through Saturday. The American Quarter Horse Association event opened Saturday with stock show activities starting Wednesday. Special honoree is Mrs. Jess Williamson of Midland. Entertainment includes Tom T. Hall Dell Reeves and David.
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Odessa
Sand Hill
Hereford
American Quarterhorse Association
Jess Williamson
Midland
Tom T. Hall
Dell Reeves
David
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R. L. Cochran
San Angelo
Midlanders
Mose
Cowboy
Pecan Partners
J. Fred Thompson
Harrison
Lovington
N.M
Women's Club
New Mexico
Lea County Museum
Alfreda Gregory
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!