History tv on the road. Support from our sudden link cable partners, we travel to amarillo, texas. Well discover the history of this panhandle city of about 2,000. Starting with a visit to the second largest canyon in the u. S. Following that, in about ten minutes, well learn about kansas citys influence on the development of amarillo. And in 20 minutes, step inside a rail car used to move Nuclear Material around the United States. Later a trip to the Panhandle Plains History Museum in nearby canyon as we tour their native plains exhibit. We begin our special feature at paladillo state park. Its like its been for thousands of years. All of a sudden you come across this huge drop into the earth. And its even today quite an experience. I have to appreciate how lucky i am to be here every day. The canyon has been forming for about a million years or so. The bulk of the formation has happened in the last hundred thousand years. It runs from here down close to the town of silverton. And so
The things we talk about this show we pitched it as looking without evidence looking within. We are in that Historical Museum and its the largest Historical Museum in the state of texas if you count the number of artifacts cattle cowboys and culture. Urban west. Michael gore who was the fulltime curator and we set up the show both of us are native to kansas city suburb always interested in why this place felt so familiar to us as having grown up there and michael started looking at the number of objects in the plains Permanent Collection that related to kansas city and it turns out they were over 1000 object on today debates he pulled out so we started looking at what kind of objects there were and we found such a good array of variety of objects we thought we needed to do a show that told the sister city head of kansas city and amarillo. A lot of people expect that amarillo grew up looking to dallas and looking to denver or to houston but this closeness is basically around the train s
Of the ranching history is texas, texas, texas, but one of the things we talked about this show, we pitched it as looking without rather than always looking within. We are in the panhandle Plains Historical museum. The museum is the largest Historical Museum in the state of texas, if you count it by the number of artifacts and the exhibition title is cattle, cowboys and culture. Kansas city and Amarillo Building an urban west. Michael grauer, both of us are native to kansas city. We were always interested in why this place felt so familiar to us as having grown up there. Michael started looking at the objects and there were over 1,000 objects on a daily basis he started pulling up. We found such a good array, variety of objects that we thought we needed to do a show that told the sister city hood of kansas city and amarillo. This closeness is basically around the train system and the cattle industry that drew those two cities together. We tell the story of that in this show. In the 187