Museum of the High Plains — Attraction in McCook

I visited a couple of times in my youth. When we first moved to McCook my dad helped an employee pick the lock on a very old cash register drawer. We had moved to McCook after living in Los Angeles. It helped me to visit the museum helped me to acclimate to the Midwest culture. My maternal grandfather was from Ravenna and my maternal grandmother was from Box Elder (sod house family... Campbels and Johnson). My mom was born in a no longer existing house on W...

I live here, but had friends from out of state visiting me. They wanted to check out our museum and were super impressed by how much there was to see and how many things there were in the museum, in spite of the size of it. Very...

Lots of local color, plus you can chat with the docent to get interesting stories you wouldn't normally get. Most interesting to me was the WWII German POW Camp, and some memorabilia from the...