Sept 16 day 26 cont.

For some reason only a portion of my post made it to the blog. Maybe operator error, but I doubt it.
cont: to get a prescription filled. Found a wi-fi near Mc Donalds and got my e-mail for the day. On to tour the town of Abilene mainly Frontier Texas. There are many of the old bildings that have been restored back to original conditions as well as a relatively new building housing a Multi Media Center. We decided to take in the media center first. The cost was only $6.00 for seniors. This building covers the century from 1780 to 1880 of the history of Texas area. The displays are activated by your presence and people appear from nowhere and are in 3 deminsions. The look and sound real. They tell about their life and the conditions that they found and then the would just fade away the same way they appeared. There was an Indian that talked about their life and how they provided for their tribe and how it differed from the white man. One cowboy talked about killing buffalo an not being able to sell or trade the hide, so he sent one to his brother in New York to see if he could sell them. He reeived a letter stating that he wanted 1000 hides as soon as he could get them. So the cowboy obrained the ammunition and began shooting buffalo and taking the hides and leaving the rest for the animals and vulchers. As soon as the word got out there were thousands of buffalo killed just for the hide. This made it difficult for the Indians to survive and the moved on to areas where they could obtain food. One room we encountered a huge lightning and thunder storm. A cowboy that was helping to drive a herd of cattle to market talked about how you stopped a stampeed. You had to get in fromt of the herd and turn the leaders back into the herd and hope that you did not get trampled by the stampeeding herd. The next morning he would see how many of the other cowboys survived the night and round up the strays and get them back on the trail. Catle were bought for $3.00/head and driven to Wichita, St Louis or other city that had a rail head and sold them for $30.00/head. Then you had to return home with the money without being robbed or being killed by Indians. All of this for $30.00/mo pay. A really hard life on the frontier. We could have gone through it again and enjoyed it as we would have known what to watch for and see.
We toured some of the area on our scooters and as we had not had any lunch we returned to the RV for supper and a good nights rest.
On toward San Antonio tomorrow.