Red River Valley Museum

Oklahoma

Roy Orbison is one of the locally born celebrities whose photographs hang in this small Texas museum.

The Red River Valley Museum sits on the grounds of Vernon College, and one room is given over to people from around here who got famous elsewhere. Jack Teagarden's personal effects came from his family after he died in 1964. Photographs and memorabilia of other locally born celebrities, Roy Orbison among them, share the space. Another gallery has nothing to do with music at all. A rancher named Bill Bond, who helped start the museum, donated mounted exotic game from around the world. More than a hundred and thirty animals, from a tiny antelope called the dik dik to a polar bear. The Waggoner Gallery tells a different kind of story. W. T. Waggoner set out with his father as a boy and ended up with a ranching empire spread across parts of six counties. At five hundred and thirty thousand acres, it became known as the largest ranch in the United States under one fence.

Wayside reads this to you as you drive past, timed to arrive before the place does. Plan a route through here.

What this was written from
Photographs and memorabilia of other locally born celebrities such as Roy Orbison can also be found in this room.

Written from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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