White Deer Land Museum

In 1882 the Francklyn Land and Cattle Company took on some 631,000 acres in what became Gray, Roberts, Carson and Hutchinson counties. The venture failed, its English bondholders foreclosed, and in 1886 they formed the White Deer Land Company to manage and sell the land. Its managers, George Tyng, Timothy D. Hobart, Cecil Buckler and Montague K. Brown, shaped the country around them. Tyng named Pampa, after the Argentine pampas he had seen. Hobart picked settlers for what he expected to be a wheat belt, and in the Depression the company's loans to wheat farmers helped keep the town steady.

The company's last headquarters was this two-story building on South Cuyler Street, built in 1916. It stayed in business until 1957, and the museum opened in its rooms in 1970, with the company's records and documents and pioneer belongings spread through dozens of rooms. The Holland Wing next door was remodeled in 1995.

The annex at 124 South Cuyler, remodeled in 2007, is given over to the Red River War of 1874 and 1875, with displays on the Native nations and the battles fought across the Panhandle, and one of the largest collections of artifacts from the war on display in the region. The Comanche National Museum in Lawton and the Kiowa Tribal Museum in Carnegie, Oklahoma, tell the war in the nations' own words.