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Organization The American Cowboy Museum

Category Musuems

Description The mission of the American Cowboy Museum is to preserve the western heritage of native American, Blacks, Hispanics and women. Housed in an area of the Century-Euro Taylor-Stevenson Ranch, the museum offers tours, exhibits, oral historians who offer stories and lectures dressed in native attire, and hands-on activties.

The founder, Mollie Stevenson, Jr. and her mother were the first living African Americans inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Ft. Worth, Texas. In 1988, Mollie Stevenson, Sr., and Mollie Stevenson, Jr. founded and continue to operate the museum in the effort to preserve the multicultural history of the West and the contributions of African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans and women to the history and culture of the West.



Web Address

Contact
Phone (713) 433-4441
Email

Address 11822 Almeda
Houston, Texas



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