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July 17, 2023
Frontier Times Museum celebrates the American Cowboy
By Rebecca Norton
Executive Director, Frontier Times Museum
On Saturday, July 22, the Frontier Times Museum is celebrating the National Day of the American Cowboy with a family activity day geared towards the American Cowboy.
For the kids, the museum is having a Cowboy Scavenger Hunt where little buckaroos are invited to find artifacts throughout the building that were used by actual cowboys, some more than 100 years old. Learn about the tools and clothing cowboys used in the museum’s Cowboy Gallery and see what led to the end of the old cattle trails – the invention of the barb wire fence.
The museum has more than 100 examples of the many varieties of barb wire that were invented in the late 1800s. Other activities include face painting, Dress Like a Cowboy in the museum’s Cowboy Corner, and branding iron painting, and try your skill and luck at a variety of games such as Bean Bag Boot Toss.
All activities are being held inside in the air conditioning and will be going on from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and are free with museum admission. The Frontier Times Museum is located at 510 13th Street in Bandera, Texas, the Cowboy Capital of the World. For more information, please go to www.frontiertimesmuseum.org or call 830-796-3864.
For the kids, the museum is having a Cowboy Scavenger Hunt where little buckaroos are invited to find artifacts throughout the building that were used by actual cowboys, some more than 100 years old. Learn about the tools and clothing cowboys used in the museum’s Cowboy Gallery and see what led to the end of the old cattle trails – the invention of the barb wire fence.
The museum has more than 100 examples of the many varieties of barb wire that were invented in the late 1800s. Other activities include face painting, Dress Like a Cowboy in the museum’s Cowboy Corner, and branding iron painting, and try your skill and luck at a variety of games such as Bean Bag Boot Toss.
All activities are being held inside in the air conditioning and will be going on from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and are free with museum admission. The Frontier Times Museum is located at 510 13th Street in Bandera, Texas, the Cowboy Capital of the World. For more information, please go to www.frontiertimesmuseum.org or call 830-796-3864.