In episode 155 of Wise About Texas, Ken Wise sits down with curator and board president Tony Widner and founder Shannon Potts at the Young County Museum of History and Culture’s first-anniversary celebration. Neither had run a museum before, yet they turned a 1937 Piggly Wiggly into a home for Young County history, a history that ran longer than most because the Civil War emptied Fort Belknap and slowed settlement for decades. Highlights include a pistol recovered from the site of the Marlow brothers gunfight, an 1817 James Monroe peace medal reportedly worn by the Kiowa leader Little Buffalo in the 1864 Elm Creek Raid, pieces of the oak tree where ranchers organized in 1877 what became the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, and a chuck wagon display tied to Charles Goodnight. Listen to the full episode to hear the stories behind them.
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