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Surprisingly good museum
We are taking and extra day to rest before going on the road again. This is a nice campground with very large and long pull through sites. It is also Passport America (one day). Amarillo Ranch RV Park is about 17 miles from Canyon, TX.
Canyon is very near Palo Duro Canyon, a nice trip with a great little musical to enjoy. We had previously enjoyed that adventure, so we decided to take in the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum on the campus of West Texas A&M University in Canyon.
The Museum was started in 1935. I didn't expect much going in the front door. Boy, was I wrong. This is a class Museum. At $12.00 entry fee, it is a bargain. There are three well planned floors with alcove after alcove of interesting exhibits.
There are exhibits of the South Plains Indians such as the Comanche and Apache tribes. There was also an archaeological exhibit of an agricultural tribe who lived in adobe compounds that predated the later tribes.
Interestingly, we also found displays of "artifacts" that we remembered using or seeing our parents and grandparents using when we were children. It caused me to muse as to whether we, too, were now artifacts.
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