But one thing we talked about in this show, we pitched it as looking without rather than always looking within. Panhandleplains museum, and the museum is the largest Historical Museum in texas if you count it by the number of artifacts. The exhibition title is cattle, cowboys, and culture, kansas city and, real on the building of the urban west. The curator and us are both natives of kansas city. We were always interested in why this place seems so familiar to us. And michael started looking at the number of objects in the museums Permanent Collection related to kansas city and it turns out there were over 1000 objects on the database he pulled up. We started at look started looking at what kind of objects there were, and found such a good array of a variety of objects, we thought we needed to do a show that told the sisterhood of kansas city and amarillo. A lot of people might expect amarillo corrupt looking to dallas or houston, but this is around the train system and the cattle industry that drew those two cities together. So we tell the story of that in this show. As cattle was being driven by the cowboys, many walked across the plains, for example, from texas to montana. Longhorns were the best kind of walking cattle for those drives. But they are not the best beef cattle. So by the railroad had cut 1887, through this area and it founded based on the railroad. Amarillo did not exist until the railroad came through. And by that time there was more shipping of the cattle on the rails, rather than doing the drives anymore. And those kind of cattle could be the herfords and the beef cattle we think of. And the beefds cattle we think of. By the time kansas city and amarillo were linked by the santa fe railroad, kansas citys Cattle Market started booming based on the cattle raised in the panhandle. So we helped each other to grow the cattle industry with the , train connecting the two. And then the other aspect is the culture and fashion, and objects in the museum that tell the story of going to kansas city and finding goods and services that were bringing sophistication back here. Even the cowboys would go shopping and buy spurs and boots in kansas city. We didnt have local Business Owners that could sell those items to the cowboys. I think people can understand beyond this area, it is a local , history, it is also a regional a nationald also history, so it works on a number of levels. We have a newspaper from kansas city that is dated to the era of the borger boom of oil. Borger is a town northwest of, northwest of amarillo, and in the 1926 there was Oil Discovered in the town and there was a huge influx of investment money into amarillo. So what we have in this image is a kansas city newspaper featuring amarillo has the wonder city of the texas panhandle. So this idea that the little amarillo city was the wonder city of the texas panhandle, that is something that today sounds oldfashioned. But i think it was very true back then. We also have this blueprint above, and it is by an architect who, i think, deserves his own study. His name is guy kerr lander. Der. Uy kerlan what we have is an image of the United States with the city of amarillo that is larger than any other city and it is showing the networking of amarillo as a crossroads of the United States. It is also an ideal location for capital and industry. And it is one straight shot of line it is an almost quicker , wine than to dallas. And houston is not even on this map. So the idea that this network between kansas city and, reload is what this whole show is about and how close those two cities , work for a number of reasons, based on the cattle trade. These two objects help tell that story. We are standing in front of another object. This is a reproduction, but this is a blueprint for a Christmas Card design by guy, who was an artist that was an architect. He was born in the kansas city area, studied for a few years in college, and, for then he got a job at the santa fe around. Raisee did not get the they wanted from the railroad, got a job at the sand got a job at the santa fe railroad. When he did not get the raise he wanted, he decided to start out in amarillo and found his own firm. He lived out his life being an amarillo citizen and he built so much of the landscape in this area. What we are looking at is a design by him. It is at the skyline of amarillo. One of the facts people would not know is that after oil was discovered in the regions in 1926 there was a boom in amarillo. And there were more skyscrapers erected in amarillo between 1926 than any other city in the United States. The skyscrapers were seven to 10 stories tall. One of the things we did during the promotion of the show was , think back to the musical oklahoma. When they are singing about kansas city, they say that seven stories is his highest buildings ought to go. This idea of scraping the sky at seven stories is something for the. That seems out of date for us. He is very proud of the skyline, and he designed a number of things here. He designed a number of things here he designed the baptist , church. He also designed the fisk building. They designed the amarillo link and the rural building. The rule building is one of the first buildings with a car garage attached to it. So this was also the era where amarillo went from the horse and buggy to streetcars, to actual automobiles. So amarillo, because it has the route 66 connection becomes an , automobile city very quickly. And you can see that in the structures. I think the importance is to give the sense that this area, the panhandle planes and amarillo as a city the and amarillo as a city is interesting because it , is a big, urban center for a large, rural area. We were interested in how the development of cities and their landscape in the west occurred. Cell so the idea of kansas city being another city not as appreciated as it should be for its role in the United States development of urbanity. We were tying those two together , and i think people can understand beyond this area it , is a local history, that is also a regional history and a national history. So it works on a number of levels. Our cities to her staff recently traveled to amarillo to learn more about its rich history. To learn more, go to cspan. Org citiestour. Youre watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. Night, the Justice Department attorney general and a former fbi general counsel james baker, on encryption, technology and privacy. 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