Visit our Circulation department for print subscription information. Should the fishing slow down in the heat of the day, you just might want to slip into Spearman. Should the fishing slow down in the heat of the day, you just might want to slip into Spearman. The house is set up just like when the station master was on the job, Hunter said. Volunteers later teamed up to move the old depot to the location and adjoin it to the station master's house.
Military memorabilia features everything from the Civil War to Desert Storm.
There's even a multiple-case display on the USS Hansford, a supply ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy during World War II and named after Hansford County. The museum boasts hundreds of pictures of pioneers, as well as Spearman's first radio, where folks used to gather around to listen after it arrived in town in 1921, and an old telephone long-distance operator's board. One display features the back end of the original Brillhart chuck wagon, and in the station house you can see how it was divided into the freight room, the agent's office and the passengers' lobby. There's a display of Hansford County sheriffs, Indian artifacts, a dinosaur bone, old radios and just about every antique you can imagine. Zulu Stockade started out as a buffalo hunting camp in 1873 and became the first permanent structure north of the Canadian River when English buffalo hunter Robert Cator decided to stay after the buffalo were vanquished.