Pioneer West Museum (Texas)

The Pioneer West Museum is housed in the former Reynolds Hotel in Shamrock, Texas.

The Pioneer West Museum highlights a diversity of West Texas exhibits, housed on two floors of the former Reynolds Hotel in Shamrock in Wheeler County in the Texas Panhandle. During its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s, the hotel was mostly occupied by traveling salesmen. The exhibits are spread over twenty of the former hotel rooms.^[1]

The museum focuses on the culture of the Native Americans on the Great Plains and even the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Apollo XII Moon mission in which Alan LaVern Bean (1932-2018), a Wheeler County native, was an astronaut. There are cowboy exhibits, pioneer weapons, a look at the nearby former United States Army base Fort Elliot as well as farm and ranch artifacts. On display are doctor and dentist offices, a general store, pioneer kitchen, schoolroom, and elegant parlor. Located at 204 North Madden Street just east of U.S. Highway 83, the museum is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to Noon and 1 to 3 p.m.^[1]

Fort Elliot, home of the Tenth Cavalry, display at the Pioneer West Museum

Pioneer kitchen

Early dental chair

Photograph of Comanche Chief Quanah Parker

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• Pioneer West Museum