SAINTS' ROOST MUSEUM

Gatlin Duncan cooks up chicken fried steak for the Honey-Do Spoiler Wagon during the 2017 Col. Charles Goodnight Chuckwagon Cookoff.

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The tradition continues! Chuckwagon Cookoff

Since 1995, the Saints’ Roost Museum has paid tribute to the legendary Panhandle cattleman Col. Charles Goodnight with a cookoff in his honor on the fourth Saturday in September. Over the last two decades, the museum fundraiser has grown to be one of the most popular events Clarendon hosts and is considered as one of the best Chuckwagon cookoffs in the nation, receiving the 2014 Event Award from the American Chuck Wagon Association.

When the colonel bolted a food box and folding table to the rear of a surplus army wagon in 1866, he probably never dreamed the impact his “Chuck” wagon would have throughout the West. The invention became commonplace on cattle drives and ranches everywhere, serving not only as a kitchen but also a post office, parlor, hospital, store room, and cowboy social center.

Every year, the Col. Charles Goodnight Chuckwagon Cookoff hosts more than a dozen cooking teams working on authentic wagons who go head-to-head to battle for cash prizes and bragging rights at one of the nation’s premier cookoffs.

If you missed this year, we extend a special invitation for you to join us Saturday, September 25, 2021, for our next celebration of the Old West, which is gone but never forgotten. We know you will enjoy it, and we look forward to seeing you.

Housed in the 1910 Adair Hospital, the Saints’ Roost Museum preserves the heritage of Donley County and the Texas Panhandle. Exhibits include Native American artifacts and a focus on pioneer life with a special emphasis on philanthropist and JA Ranch founder Cornelia Adair, trailblazer Col. Charles Goodnight, and Western artist H.D. Bugbee. The Museum is also the home of transportation exhibits in the restored 1887 Ft. Worth & Denver City Railroad Depot.

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28TH ANNUAL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

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