Thursday, July 12, 2018

Carson County Square House Museum Complex (Full)

The purpose of the Carson County Square House Museum is to provide the highest possible level of museum experience through the collection, care, exhibition, interpretation, and demonstration of items that illustrate the history, natural history, and art of the Texas Panhandle.
 











Square House Museum, Carson County, in Panhandle, TX

ABOUT THE SQUARE HOUSE MUSEUM
The historic Square House, built of lumber that was hauled from Dodge City in the 1880’s, is just one of 21 buildings, that make up the Square House Museum complex. Case exhibits and full-sized diorama tell the story of the Texas Panhandle and its people, from mammoth hunters 12,000 years ago, through the Indian Wars, cattle ranches, and the coming of the railroad in the 19th century, to the oil boom of the 1920’s and the region’s part in the space program of today. A wildlife gallery and two art galleries add other dimensions to the history. Accredited three times by the American Association of Museums, the Square House Museum is considered one of the best small museums in the United States.
MUSEUM HISTORY
The Carson County Square House Museum started with the original Square House. Square House is a small house which was built in the late 1880’s as the railroad reached to town of Panhandle and as the town was being populated. It was occupied by early settler James C. Paul how was a pioneer banker. Next in line was Judge J.L. Harrison he was a rancher. Next was James B. Wilks how was an innkeeper. Last one was the Sheriff Oscar L. Thorp. The house was moved to its site at 5th and Elsie Streets in Panhandle, TX. After much needed restoration became the nucleus of the present Square House Museum complex with its multiple buildings. 1967 the museum was opened. In 1966 it was awarded a Recorded Texas Historical Landmark plaque. It was entered in the National Register in 1973. The museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums. This gem of the Texas Panhandle houses historical artifacts, art, and a Texana library. Traveling and in-house art exhibits are hung in the two art galleries.
Over 10,000 indoor and outdoor artifacts are on display. Sculpture is on display, as is art by local indigenous tribes. Other structures and exhibits include a train caboose, a windmill, a barn, a dugout shelter and art galleries, all focused on local history and current events

Table of Exhibit:
(1) Branding — https://youtu.be/UM4TV0X-zN8
(2) Ranching — https://youtu.be/01rTVP6wMwI
(3) Moody Wildlife Exhibit Hall — https://youtu.be/Vgvm1elPKr0
(4) Freedom Hall — https://youtu.be/5wun0kIvquA
(5) Square House — https://youtu.be/Y39FaWjrINw
(6) Dugout — https://youtu.be/Urqo6IHxlVg
(7) caboose — https://youtu.be/2RGXtWVYn_Q
(8) Commerce Exhibit — https://youtu.be/JB7duYX1d4o
(9) Eclipse Windmill — https://youtu.be/l7nbVN31iSg
(11) Conway Community Church — https://youtu.be/rqVJnwu3tCI
(12) Paddy Wagon — https://youtu.be/HTP2pwsn_ZM
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“Constancy Part One” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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 Square House Museum, Carson County, in Panhandle, TX, with 4k John the Mouse

Youtube Video Transcript:
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John the mall
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the farm and ranch building in memory of
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the townsite founders and cowboys who
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stake claims for the city the last great
00:35
Panhandle cattle drive to Montana after
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eighteen eighty each spring and summer
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many Texas herds went up the trail to
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the northern states for fattening the
00:47
trail thrilled and challenged Cowboys
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who went hungry thirsty and saddle sore
00:54
bridge tour swam the rivers forged quick
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stand streams turn stampedes fought
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Indians fees and trail town Tufts the
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last great Texas Panhandle drive was
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organized here at the n bar n
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headquarters ranch manager was Jael
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Harrison trail boss TL Tom coffee 100
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Cowboys drove 10 Hertz each with 2,500
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cattle or total of twenty-five thousand
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be is to Montana this range belonged to
01:36
the white deer land company the n bar n
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outfit left because white deer Land
01:44
Company wanted the range cleared of
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large herds by 1907 the six hundred and
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fifty thousand acres of its land was
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offered for sale to small ranchers and
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farmers it was fenced and the steam plow
02:01
introduced to turn the rich class grassy
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side
02:11
a butterfly collection
02:18
moody exhibit hall dedicated to those
02:21
who will build the future in memory of
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those who built in the past donated to
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the square house museum by the Moody
02:31
foundation of Galveston 1971
02:37
red tail hawk in mature ring that
02:41
pheasant male lesser prairie chicken
02:45
female broadwing ha in mature raccoon
02:51
lesser prairie chicken female Bobcat
02:55
western diamondback rattlesnake red tail
03:00
hawk great blue heron great blue heron
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in mature redhead male long-billed
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curlew wood duck male American vitran
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redwing blackbird male
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American crow American Robin western
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diamondback rattlesnake hornet’s nest
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family Swensons hawk in mature box
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turtle shell
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snow goose blue phase snow goose white
03:43
phase beaver American black duck female
03:48
mallard female mallard male northern
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shoveler male greater yellowlegs king
03:58
raya eastern fox squirrel American krez
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old male blue jay red-bellied woodpecker
04:08
female cedar waxwing American badger
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northern bobwhite ringneck pheasant male
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greater roadrunner common long-nosed
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armadillo ruffled grouse domestic turkey
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male quail spotted skunk eastern
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cottontail
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porcupine barred owl great horned owl
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Virginia possum barnaul skulk will
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the planes first toolmaker Panhandle
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Pueblo dweller 880 the 1380 Flint from
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al Bates original foundation stones and
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materials from 1100 AD Pueblo site on
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the Canadian River excavated 1971 Indian
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certified by OT baker university of
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texas
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gray fox pronghorn male
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a butterfly collection and tons of
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beetles
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let me be by myself in the evening
05:58
breeze home life pioneers were thrifty
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people more than one child wore each
06:04
garment the velvet suit worn by james s
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harrison in 1892 was worn by his son
06:12
james h harrison bill of sale and the
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newspaper the kansas city star
06:32
let me ride through the wide open
06:35
country that I love don’t fence me in
06:40
the good life
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the ranch life
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a man’s reach should exceed his grasp or
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what’s a heaven for Robert Browning it
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is difficult to say what is impossible
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for the dream of yesterday is the hope
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of today and the reality of tomorrow
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robert h got some books from the local
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authors man the music maker mightier
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than the sword all the world’s stage
07:40
Holy Mother Earth the trees and all
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nature are witnesses of your thoughts
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and deeds continuing intrusion into the
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southern plains by white people and
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especially the killing of the Buffalo
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ignited smoldering Indian resentment
07:58
into fierce resistance which in turn
08:02
invoked military response from the
08:04
United States the red river war 1874
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Buffalo wallow fight September 10th
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Lyman’s wagon train September 10th
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through the 14th westward expansion
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continued an agent clash of invading
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neural Americans and the American
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Indians the two cultures pulls apart in
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their definition of freedom and with
08:33
little appreciation for each other
08:36
contested violently for the possession
08:39
of the continent
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you
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the reed loom company was started in the
08:56
late 1800s in Springfield Ohio by FC
09:01
read
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for those who wanted a less expensive
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loom the company offered the ideal
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leaving up to 36 inches wide without the
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automatic change device or the little
09:20
dandy leaving up to 30 inches both were
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to shaft lures
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this teller windows came from the first
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state bank of the Panhandle founded in
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1927 in response to the oil boom in
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Carson County the roll-up top desk
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belongs to the bank’s president Charles
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eggert during the 1930s he pursued some
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men who wrapped the bank and stopped
10:00
them near Boyer where he disarmed them
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before law officers around
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the West natural wealth free for the
10:14
taking sustained diverse economic
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expansion but nowhere more dramatically
10:20
than in the free grass catalyst
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self-propelled machinery chemical
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fertilizers and irrigation brought
10:31
farming into the technological world
10:35
industrial production of tools enabled
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the white farmer to break sod produce
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food beyond his immediate needs and to
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turn farming from a way of life into a
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business enterprise for about 350 years
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horses provide personal transportation
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in America and bridge the gap between
10:57
the foot traffic and the iron horses of
11:00
steam gasoline and jet engines in the
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fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
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unique apartment dwelling Indians in the
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Canadian River Valley combine hunting of
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deer bison and antelope with corn
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horticulture industrial man mastered
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nature and thought to himself no longer
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subject to it through science which
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provided firearms axes plows and a host
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of other tools man in his times
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Panhandle plainsmen twelve thousand BC
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to 1978–80
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or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
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or abridging the freedom our rights or
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the press or the right of the people
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peaceably to assemble and to petition
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the government for a redress of religion
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and churches to a well-regulated militia
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being necessary to the security of a
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free state right education in schools
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shall not be infringed 3 no soldier
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shall in time of peace be quartered in
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any house without the consent of the
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owner upon becoming the 28s American
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state Texas retain title to its public
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land following the practices of Spain
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Mexico and the Republic the state under
12:30
Rome any public interest endeavors with
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its 150 million acre public demanding 40
12:39
million acres were distributed to
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settlers 52 million acres was for the
12:45
public education 32 million acres
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subsidized railroad construction seized
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to save walking and measuring with a
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chain ranchers and farmers devised a
12:57
simple procedure of measuring out their
13:00
land by dividing the circumference of a
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wagon wheel grounder into the distance
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to be marked then naval forces taking a
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rake or a bandana in on the wheel
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servicemen can driving away again along
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the desired line person and Counting a
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number of revolutions twice of the we
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all deal as a rag casted nor shall be
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compelled in any criminal case to be a
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witness against him an alien ball rates
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life life liberty or property
13:31
gian land and home nor shall private
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property be taken for public use without
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just compensation sixth in all criminal
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prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the
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right to a speedy and public trial by an
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impartial jury of the state and district
13:54
wherein the bill rights the rights of
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the people shall not be infringed easily
14:00
ascertained by law and to be informed of
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the nature and cause of the accusation
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to be confronted with the witnesses
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against him to have compulsory process
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for obtaining witnesses in his favor and
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to have the assistance of counsel for
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his defense
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homemade antique quilts are on the wall
14:26
$20 the right of trial by jury shall be
14:31
preserved and no fact tried by a jury
14:34
shall be otherwise reexamined in any
14:36
court of the united states then
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according to the rules of the common law
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excessive for typical items you’d find
14:47
in a house fines imposed nor cruel and
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unusual punishment in 59 the enumeration
14:58
in the constitution of certain rights
15:00
shall not be construed to deny or
15:03
disparage others retained by the people
15:07
10 the pars not delegated to the United
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States by the Constitution nor
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prohibited by it to the states are
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reserved to the states responds and a
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switchboard end of the United States
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Bill of Rights this recording is in the
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public domain
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the square house the knee during Haas
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brothers of st. Louis sent lumber by ox
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cart from Dodge City and built the
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square house on their end bar and ranch
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here in Carlson county in the mid-1880s
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in 1887 a railroad official occupied the
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Pioneer Kyle cottage while the southern
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Kansas rail raid was being extended from
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Kansas to the Panhandle city this was
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later the home of some distinguished
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settlers pioneer banker and treasure of
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southern Kansas rail ray company james
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christopher paul rancher judge jl
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harrison inn keeper James be wilt and
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sheriff Oscar L Thorpe the oldest house
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in town it was purchased in 1965 and
16:29
restored as the Carlson County Museum
16:33
panhandle from 10 city to tent city in
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40 years 1886 to 1926
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the mission is free however donations
16:50
are always welcome a letter from Temple
16:54
Houston written on stationery from the
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Paul bank this letter is to the Tut
17:00
family from Temple Houston lawyer son of
17:03
Texas here Oh Sam Houston is the most
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prized possession of the square house
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museum temple Houston was the most
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famous lawyer of the plains and his
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legal counseling range from settlement
17:17
of estates theft of horses and cattle to
17:21
the more complicated questions of the
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eminent domain that involved the coming
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of the railroads the fencing of the
17:29
range and the legal grazing of public
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lands this panhandle office was in the
17:37
Paul Bank building the Bison hunt of
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1870 brought hundreds of hunters and
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with these long range accurate rifles
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they destroyed the great herds one
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hunter and to skinner’s could kill and
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skin 100 bison a date but the average
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kill was probably less the hides were
17:58
shipped to st. Louis and the bleached
18:01
bones that covered the plains served as
18:03
a grim reminder that the Indian staff of
18:07
life was gone the Indians reduced to
18:11
starvation were sent to their assigned
18:14
reservations and the way was open for
18:17
the duration of ranching Empire
18:23
later when settlers came into this area
18:26
the bleached bones were gathered up
18:29
stacked as high as two storey buildings
18:32
at the Panhandle and shipped to st.
18:35
Louis in New Orleans for Cyril
18:37
fertilizer and refining of sugar
18:40
proceeds from picking up bison bones
18:43
enabled many of the pioneers to hold his
18:47
claim and make the interest payments
18:55
u.s. Navy model 1928 Thompson submachine
19:01
gun
19:10
al Holland early settler on the white
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deers lands was the second sheriff of
19:16
Carson County after the town of pampa
19:18
was founded Holland operated the Holland
19:21
hotel
19:26
thomas Cree and his little tree
19:41
the Franklin Land and Cattle Company the
19:45
White Deer lands 1882 to 1957
19:57
the railroads
20:06
the caboose stove Cole’s goop used on
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the Santa Fe
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the flag men’s Lantern this was used as
20:20
a stop signal in later years and then as
20:23
a brakeman slam and more ill played the
20:30
Tea Party in a more intimate social
20:33
setting from 1892 1901 this family is
20:39
hosting a party of their own the little
20:42
girl in the pink is treating her doll to
20:45
a nice cup of tea while her mother lays
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the baby down for any manners and
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decorum were taught to children through
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playtime so that they would one day be
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ready to host their own adult Tea Party
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during this period the woman was solely
21:06
in charge of the household in this scene
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the little girl is watching and
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mimicking her mother she is learning the
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skills that she will one day need to
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care for her family of her own
21:22
pioneer dugout in the 1874 through 1888
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era the high plains the sea of grass had
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no native timber stone or adobe building
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materials homes were dugouts or if
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settlers wagons went some 300 miles for
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lumber half dugout dugout swirl in the
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winter cool in the summer some were
21:50
carpeted and cloth wine some had a
21:53
little extra room for the schoolteacher
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or other guests the cooking and heating
21:59
stoves burn Buffalo chips cow chips this
22:04
is an exact replica of a Carson County
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half dugout
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this caboose wants office and nerve
22:18
center for the train crews was given to
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Panhandle because this city 1887 had a
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distinction as the end of the line
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Kansas Southern now Santa Fe Railway in
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late nineteenth and early twentieth
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centuries Cowboys Road in the caboose to
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tend and water my boundaries at
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intervals when train halter a transport
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to a bright lights of Chicago st. Louis
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or Kansas City the caboose held glamour
23:03
beyond its work days to wife and
23:08
children back home
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get returned the water and the wondrous
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gifts bra
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the Santa Fe has over 6000 is state
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railroad stoves and use the estate stove
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company was the first stove manufactured
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to realize the importance of proper
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cooking and heating equipment in
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railroad service and to build aligned of
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stoves designed to afford the maximum
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economy convenience and safety
24:01
the caboose was built by American car
24:05
and foundry st. Charles Missouri 1928
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bye
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atchison topeka and santa fe railway
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car number 17 all three are empty weight
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50 4,500 pounds
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be aware there’s a five-hundred-dollar
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fine for climbing on top of the caboose
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and roof
25:00
the bank was all boarded up couldn’t see
25:03
anything inside the general store as you
25:07
can see in the back it has a bank teller
25:09
window this is an intense game of
25:13
checkers it’s been going on for years
25:18
and other things that were normally
25:22
found in a general store next spot here
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is the dentist the man in the dentist
25:30
chair seems a little bit uneasy this is
25:34
a side window to the blacksmith shop see
25:41
a grinding wheel
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Oh
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on the back wall hangs branding irons
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looks like he’s working in the back
26:12
there in his Forge
26:22
print shop it has a single page printing
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press an apron hanging on the wall so
26:32
the printer doesn’t get ink on himself
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papers scattered around
26:43
the Santa Fe office the real Panhandle
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Depot is used as a City Hall as you can
26:54
see it’s filled with items that would
26:56
have been in the depot at the time
27:04
it’ll be a minute she’s taken a
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telegraph
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all aboard Eclipse windmill patented
27:23
1867 George of white deer lands drilled
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the first water well in 1887 near
27:31
present townsite white deer after
27:34
unsuccessful attempt in 1886 by Franklin
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Land and Cattle Company windmill
27:41
indispensable factor in settlement
27:44
plains of Texas the Eclipse mill slow
27:48
running direct stroke no gears used for
27:52
over 40 years
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Conway Community Church residents of
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Conway established 9 miles south of here
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in 1905 attended the non domination all
28:26
services in a relocated schoolhouse
28:30
until the Union church building was
28:32
completed in 1912 it became an important
28:37
gathering place for the Conway community
28:39
and house regular worship services until
28:43
nineteen sixty membership in the
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congregational dwindled and the building
28:49
fell into disrepair former church
28:52
members and airier area volunteers
28:56
donated thousands of hours to restore
28:58
the structure to its historic condition
29:01
and relocated here to the square house
29:04
museum complex in 1990 jail wagon
29:09
portable jail one way wagon paddy wagon
29:13
known by all three names this vehicle
29:17
was manufactured in 1881 company making
29:22
similar vehicles was Polly Jail company
29:27
of st. Louis Missouri or the et Barnum
29:31
company of Detroit Michigan
29:34
seen in the movies from the 1950s to the
29:38
recent group of pirate movies wagons
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like this were used for many purposes
29:45
this was supposedly used to transport
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convicts to remote areas Carson County
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to repair roads and bridges others
29:57
remember comics being loaded into the
30:00
bed of a model a ford truck for
30:03
transport complete with ball-and-chain
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after the oil boom employer people
30:11
recall seeing the patio wagon arrived on
30:14
Sunday morning captain misprints from
30:18
that town
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