Snyder, TX, United States
Site of O.K. Wagon Yard. (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 f
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