Colorado City, Texas
After taking a month off from our museum travels we are back on track. We started by driving to Colorado City to visit the small museum they have nestled there. I had read from reviews to call before coming to make sure they were open, I was so glad I did because sure enough they were closed (for air conditioner problems). After explaining that we had driving over two hours we were graciously invited over. Our visit was short, because of the work going on inside as well as the fact that the director personally let us in on her own time. We started by watching a video of a Kiowa Indian Chief named Lone Wolf, who was an important figure when Indians were being forced onto reservations. We were so used to hearing about Qaunnah Parker in the local museums that this was something new and interesting. A very large fossil of a mammoth is on display as well as a full skeleton of an extinct buffalo from the area. Exhibits of barbed wire, ranch tools and cowboy gear can also be viewed. Upstairs houses furniture and pictures from the past, including a full room of old toys collected from around the world by a gentleman in town that gave them to the museum. One room is dedicated to a local woman who started the grocery store in town and her bedroom furnishings and pictures can be seen. The house that the museum is in was once owned by Preston C. Coleman who is known as "The Father of Texas Tech University". The end of our tour was complete by going inside a red caboose that is kept outside on the property. The kids had a wonderful time roaming inside and out of the train car. For being such a small museum the large displays of fossils were done very well and we wish we would have had a little more time to really look around.
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