Museum at Fort Reno
Fort Reno was established after the Civil War. The U.S. Cavalry trained their horses and pack mules here. Sounds boring but a lot of famous generals were here at one time or another. Even the infamous General Custer was here to train his soldiers--not successfully I may add! The museum was on three floors in the building in this picture and had a plethora of documents and pictures. We found it extremely interesting and spent an hour and a half touring it and other buildings on the site. There was never a stockade type fort at this site.
There is a lot of Route 66 running parallel to I40. After Fort Reno Route 66 is still much of the original cement road in various states of condition--some of it good, some of it a bit rough. Also, much of this cement road has a kind of lip on it that was suppose to keep cars from leaving the road but that proved not to work so well.
At Clinton Oklahoma we found the best museum of Route 66 that we have seen so far. We spent over two hours doing the tour and enjoyed it immensely.
Late in the afternoon we found another Route 66 museum in Elk City Oklahoma but it was closed for the day.
We decided to continue today into Texas. Just before the Texas border we went through a town called Texola Oklahoma which is an excellent example of what the interstate development did to small towns on Route 66. Most of the buildings in the town looked like this---even the ones being lived in.
We made our way into Texas and decided to stay in Shamrock Tex. We haven't seen any leprauchans yet but we'll keep a look out for them.
Before we left Oklahoma, Vicky found a new friend.
It sure is nice that you were able to leave Oklahoma before the roads were rolled up for the night. We have a town in Alberta like Texola. It is called Alsask. Is that building in the process of being built or demolished? It is tough to understand why people vandalize bison and then tourists mock the poor beasts.
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