Day In Amarillo
Trip Start
Oct 08, 2009
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Trip End
Nov 04, 2009
Where I stayed
Amarillo, Texas, United States
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
We stopped at a museum called the Panhandle plains museum. It has a lot of history of the panhandle of Texas. Near the museum is a canyon Palo Duro 2nd largest canyon in the US. Its 178 miles long and not as deep as Grand Canyon. The canyon was discovered by Coronado in 1541 who was looking for gold. We took a jeep tour on a working ranch owned by the Elkins. We took a jeep tour down into the canyon with a cowboy named Odie, He was quite an interesting story teller, telling us about the history of the area.
One story was about a 9 year old blue eyed blond captured by the Comanche. She ended up marrying a chief and had a son who became chief. In her later life she was captured by the US army but escaped back to another tribe as she only knew life as an Indian
Cadaliac Ranch
. When she died they buried her in a cemetery, later her son requested she be exhumed and buried in an Indian burial ground at Fort Still which she was.Once Teddy Roosevelt asked the Comanche Indian chief that if he wanted to join with the govt he would have to give up 6 of his seven wives as that wouldn't be allowed in white society, He told President Roosevelt that he would do that , but Roosevelt would have to go to the wives himself and decide which 6 wives he have to get rid off. Roosevelt let him keep all the wives!!!! True story
Later in the day we stopped at the American Quarter Horse Museum. The story of the horse as a race horse. ranch horse and rodeo performer
interesting story about Cyntha Parker captured by Commanche
http://www.lone-star.net/mall/texasinfo/CynthiaAnnParker.htm
