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Since pioneer days, West Texas has charmed visitors with its immense sky and expansive countryside dominated by the Pecos and Devils rivers. Today,in addition to the natural beauty, tourists enjoy eclectic oil and ranching-themed museums, Indian pictographs, historic courthouse squares and frontier forts.

(1) Pecos

The irrigated fields of this self-initiated Main Street city produce the delicious Pecos cantaloupes, which thrive on the right combination of soil, sun and altitude. In late summer, visitors enjoy the annual Cantaloupe Festival. At the West-of-the-Pecos Museum and Park, tour the 1896 saloon and three floors of the 1904 hotel. See restored fixtures, displays of life in the late 1800s, and the site where two outlaws were gunned down by a quick-draw bartender. Fifty rooms of exhibits showcase Pecos and West Texas history. The adjacent park contains the first building in Pecos and a replica of Judge Roy Bean's saloon.

(2) Monahans

Established circa 1881 as a railroad stop, the area surrounding this Texas Main Street city was first visited by Spanish explorers and inhabited by Native Americans. Today the city is the Ward County seat and a financial and marketing center for cattle and oil. The Million Barrel Museum was built in 1928 as an oil-storage facility, but the huge tank was filled only once then abandoned. In 1987, it was converted into a...

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