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Site of O.K. Wagon Yard

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Ave R and 24th St., Snyder, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 32° 43' 5.00324999988", -100° 55' 2.8287500016"
 
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    (Formerly on Jackass Avenue) Stopping place for travelers in early 1900s. Rented rooms and horse stalls for two bits (25 c) each. Provided blacksmithing and harness repair and kept a horse, Jersey Bull, and a Missouri Jack (donkey) as stud animals. With right contact here, a cowboy could also buy a jar of White Lightning (home-brewed whiskey). On Saturdays citizens passed the hat to finance a rodeo at the yard. In later years first Mondays were held here, where farmers, ranchers, mule skinners, and the curious met to swap or exchange produce, livestock, and other goods. Yard closed in 1930s. (1971)

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Site of O.K. Wagon Yard Historical Marker Location Map, Snyder, Texas