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Old Sonora Ice House Ranch Museum in Sonora
Photographer: Stan A. Williams

Veterans Of All Wars & Pioneer Ranch Women Exhibit

Museum spotlights the veterans' stories, photos, military equipment, letters and uniforms. Pioneer Ranch Women tells the stories of the women who came to the area with their husband and children to make their homes. Pioneer Ranch Women Museum features photos, clothing, stories, post cards, and information on how they lived and worked on ranches in Sutton and surrounding counties. The Old Sonora Ice House Ranch Museum preserves ranching history, cowboys, cowgirls, rodeo stories, outlaws and lawmen of the old West. Will Carver, who once rode with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, is buried in Sonora, and the sheriff's gun that fired the fatal shot is in the Ranch Museum. Open Mon.–Fri. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. and on weekends by appointment. 105 Concho St. (corner of Main St.) in historical downtown. www.friendsofsonora.org. www.sonoratx-chamber.com.

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Sonora, Texas

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Open Mon.–Fri. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. and on weekends by appointment.

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Replica of World’s Tallest Windmill

Originally constructed of wood in "El Canyon de las Casas Amarillas" (The Canyon of the Yellow Houses) on the XIT Ranch in 1887 to a height of 132 feet, the famous windmill blew down on Thanksgiving Day, 1926. The replica is 114 feet to axis of the 12-foot windmill. U.S. 84 at XIT Ave.

City: Littlefield
Region: Panhandle Plains

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