Visited the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Where else are you going to find a room full of rolling racks with hundreds of different kinds of barb wire on display?
I understand this monumental plaster statue called End of the Trail was all but abandoned in Visalia, CA of all places until it moved to the museum in 1968.
They had reconstructed a period Main St. with a church and saloon and jail and train depot.
True story: the Christian elementary school I attended was so conservative that we studied McGuffey Readers just like these shown here.
I’ve tried my best to comfort Abe in the past, to no avail.
Even the landscaping outside the museum was impressively beautiful.