 Visit the Buckhorn Saloon & Museum |
 The Buckhorn is five museums in one! Horns, Fins, Feathers, Texas History Wax Museum, and strange special exhibits not seen in any other museums in the world |
 Step right in and see the bar among the trophies |
 A 78 point buck is right above the bar |
 The entrance to the Horns is above the game room |
 The curio store is over near the entrance |
 Here is the same longhorn from the 1995 visit |
 Lots of saddles and other cowboy gear |
 Many, many chairs made from horns |
 The longest longhorn is Old Tex at 8 feet, 1.5 inches |
 Two deer unaware of a nearby cougar |
 An early Arkansas versus Wisconsin standoff |
 One of UT Austin's many albino squirrels |
 Buffalo Bill's model 1876 Winchester caliber 50-95 |
 Lions, tigers, and cheetahs, oh my! |
 The Guard was the 1st african gorilla on display in the US, he cost $22.50 in 1914 |
 Turn around and see plenty mounted trophies . . . |
 . . . between two doors looking down on the saloon |
 Next room has kitties, rams, and elks |
 At least most of these were eaten after shot |
 Meow, purr, purr, purr |
 A rhino, an elephant, and a hippopotamus skull |
 This dingo will never eat yo baby again |
 Tie me wallaby down, sport, tie me wallaby down |
 Strange antlered deer, top left is barbwire |
 Top 2 killed by predators when locked & exhausted |
 Polar bear who appreciates the indoor A/C |
 A brown bear not as smart as your average bear |
 Gray wolf or timber wolf |
 Don't touch the red wolf! |
 A musk ox and another bear |
 Record holding rack on a moose, 67 inches! |
 Stay on the south end of this north bound moose! |
 More deer, cougar, moose, elk, yeehaw! |
 The other trophies on the south end of the moose |
 Look down on the saloon before entering the fins |
 The Hall of Fins was added in 1964 |
 Record setting trophy fish |
 Many of the animals here are over 100 years old |
 I have never caught a fish near these sizes! |
 Just like scuba diving the Bahamas! |
 Now we are scuba diving the Caymans |
 Really, really big Blue Marlin |
 We leave the fins for the feathers but the feathers are all behind glass and mesh not conducive for photography . . . no bird photos! |
 Only pair of passenger pigeons in the world The last one died in Cincinatti in 1914 |
 Two heads are better than one in most cases but probably not for this one |
 A fan of U2's: Two hearts beat as One song |
 Future Chick-fil-A spokesman, "Eat more chicken!" |
 Manboon, merman, river-raptor, & horned conehead |
 South American Shuar tribe shrunken heads |
 Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, a French explorer who claimed for France a vast territory that he named "Louisiana, around 1683 |
The Hall of Texas History Wax Museum
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 1817: Pirate Jean Lafitte plundered spanish treasure in the Gulf of Mexico from his headquarters at Baratari & later Compeche on Galveston Island |
 1833: Jim Bowie in the lost San Saba silver mine "Los Almagres", revealed to him by Lipan Indian Chief Xolic |
 1819: Reception at Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio de Bexar |
 1821: Stephen F. Austin worked with Mexico to pave the way for Anglo-American colonization of Texas |
 William Barret Travis writes his Appeal for Aid at the Alamo, on 24 February 1836 |
 Sam Houston was a 2-term president of Texas |
 1854: Comanche Indians striking an isolated pioneer home on the western frontier of Texas |
 Comanche haircuts were not popular |
 US 2nd Calvary & Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee on the TX border in 1855 under Col. Albert Sydney Johnston |
 The last battle of the Civil War took place at Palmito Ranch near Brownsville, May 13, 1865 |
 Texas Rangers scout out cattle rustlers |
 View of the Buckhorn saloon before heading out |
