Visitors to next weekend’s White Buffalo Days will have the chance to walk back in time.
Henry B. Crawford, the former curator of history at the Museum of Texas Tech University, will set up his frontier days-style campsite, complete with gear, cowhides and tents, on the west side of the Scurry County Courthouse gazebo.
Crawford will welcome people to his campsite from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 6 and talk about the days when J. Wright Mooar killed the white buffalo in Scurry County.
“I think this will be really neat for White Buffalo Days,” Snyder Chamber of Commerce Events Coordinator Josh Ortegon said. “His campsite is the reason we have White Buffalo Days.”
Ortegon learned of Crawford’s work as a re-enactor through Scurry County Museum Educator Erika Jane Christensen.
“She met him in Montana and found out he was from Lubbock and knew a lot about J. Wright Mooar,” he said. “She gave me his contact information and we are excited he is coming to town.”
His re-enacting and academic areas include the American fur trade, freighters, buffalo hunters, Texas in the 1830s and 1840s, the Civil War and the post-war frontier military.
Ortegon said he is still finalizing the weekend schedule for White Buffalo Days.
Booths are scheduled to open around the square at 5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Oct. 6. The United Supermarket Pumpkin Patch is also returning this year. It will be located on the northeast courthouse parking lot and will open at the same time as the booths, Ortegon said.
On Oct. 6, the Deep Creek Cloggers will perform at 10:30 a.m. in the gazebo area of the Scurry County Courthouse. At 11 a.m., dancers from Studio 92 will be featured in the gazebo area. On 26th Street beginning at noon, Cheers R Us will perform.
One act that will be returning to Snyder again this year is the Aztec Dancers. Ortegon said the dancers will perform twice on Friday and three times on Saturday.
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