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and November. E Buddy Holly Center
The hiking trails 1801 Crickets Ave. Tel (806) 775-3560.
between the canyon Open 10am–5pm Tue–Sat, 1–5pm
walls that shelter a Sun. Closed public hols. & 7
perennial stream are ∑ buddyhollycenter.org
also very popular. P Ranching Heritage Center
3121 4th St. Tel (806) 742-0498.
p Lubbock Open 10am–5pm Mon–Sat, 1–5pm
Sun. Closed public and university
* 244,000. ~ @ hols. 7 ∑ nrhc.ttu.edu
n 1500 Broadway,
(806) 747-5232.
∑ visitlubbock.org a Canyon
* 14,000. @ n 1518 5th Ave, (806)
Home to 30,000 655-7815. ∑ visitcanyontx.com
sports-crazy students
at Texas Tech Uni- Taking its name from the
versity, Lubbock is a beautifully sculpted geology
cattle-ranching and of nearby Palo Duro Canyon,
cotton-growing city this tiny Texas town is also
Towering El Capitan in Guadalupe Mountains that is perhaps best home to the largest and
known for its musical best-known historical museum
o Guadalupe progeny. Local musicians in the state. The Panhandle-
Mountains National including Roy Orbison, Joe Ely, Plains Historical Museum,
Park Waylon Jennings, and Tanya housed in a stately 1930s
Tucker are all honored in
complex on the campus of
n US 62/180, (915) 828-3251. & Lubbock’s guitar-shaped Buddy West Texas A&M University,
∑ nps.gov/gumo Holly Center, a musical Hall holds over three million exhibits
of Fame named for the city’s tracing the history of north-
A virtually road-free region favorite son, Charles Hardin central Texas. Flint arrowheads
on the Texas/New Mexico Holley. A statue of Buddy from the Alibates quarry,
border, this national park covers Holly, one of rock and roll’s north of Amarillo, highlight
85,000 acres (34,398 ha) of most enduring icons, stands the culture of the region’s
rugged mountains that make along 8th Street and Avenue Q. prehistoric people, while
up portions of the world’s most Other aspects of Lubbock geology and paleontology
extensive Permian limestone history are covered in the Texas come together in exhibits
fossil reef, El Capitan, and the Tech University’s Ranching exploring prehistoric dinosaurs
8,749-ft (2,667-m) Guadalupe Heritage Center, an outdoor and their relation to the region’s
Peak, the highest point in assembly of historic structures petroleum industry. The story
Texas. Formed as part of the collected from all over Texas. of another great Texas tradition,
same prehistoric limestone On display are more than 30 cattle ranching, is explored
that makes up the nearby original ranch buildings, from through the life of
(and more popular) Carlsbad cowboy huts to stately Wild West rancher Charles
Caverns National Park (see p552), overseers’ mansions. Goodnight, who owned a
the Guadalupe Mountains
reward visitors with lofty peaks,
spectacular views, unusual Buddy Holly (1936–59)
flora and fauna, and a colorful Singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter, Buddy Holly
record of the past. was one of the first major rock and roll music
A short trail from the visitor performers. Deeply influenced by local
center leads to the remains of a blues and country music, he began to
stone wall and foundations of sing in country groups while still in high school.
a former frontier stagecoach By the mid-1950s, Holly was playing in small clubs
station. This was built as part of throughout the Southwest. Drawn increasingly to
the Butterfield Trail, which first rock music as exemplified by Elvis Presley, he recorded
established a link between St. both alone and as lead performer with the Crickets.
Louis and California in 1858. The group’s energetic style, combined with a strong
A few miles northeast of the background rhythm, together with Holly’s unique
visitor center, a forest of hiccoughing vocals, quickly made them a success.
hardwood trees lines the trail Songs such as “Maybe Baby” and Holly’s solo
hit “Peggy Sue” became run away hits. Holly’s
of McKittrick Canyon. Here phenomenal career came to an abrupt end in
lies the site’s most famous Buddy Holly’s statue, 1959, when he died in a plane crash in Iowa,
attraction, the spectacular red- Lubbock along with the Big Bopper and Richie Valens.
and-orange foliage in October
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp490–91

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