Cookhouse - Muleshoe Ranch

Historical marker location:

2000 Ash, Muleshoe, Texas

( Relocated to Muleshoe Heritage Complex 1986)

Marker installed: 1965

Cookhouse built in Parmer County about 1897. Bought and moved here about 1902.

Dodge City couple moving to Texas found shoe thrown by mule. Used it for good luck and as branding iron on ranch to which this old cookhouse belonged.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1965.

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