St. Joseph-where the west officially started getting wild

Our night at the Motel 6 was restful. It was nice to sleep in big, comfy beds and watch The Tonight Show. In the morning we waited way too long for breakfast at Denny's, and then made our way to the Glore Psychiatric Museum. I was all pumped about this museum since realizing that I had already seen part of a show about it on the History Channel or on Discovery or something. The museum shows all the different ways mental illness has been treated throughout the years, namely the St. Joseph Lunatic Asylum No.2. Like I said, I was all pumped. I've been to weird, slightly creepy museums before (Mutter Museum for an example) but after 20 minutes in Glore, and especially after seeing this display…

So in the early days they used physical force, and all kinds of crazy contraptions...when nowadays we get better results with itty bitty pills...needless to say, I had had enough. It's just so depressing to me that we treated people that poorly. There were numerous boxes and cages and wheels and chairs…blah.



Part of the museum was cool though, where they showed all the artwork and different projects the patients had done. Those were neat, slightly more positive. Sorry, no pictures of those. You can read more about the museum and see other pictures here.

So we left there, slightly more depressed, at least I did. I had a major case of the grumpies. But then we found our way over to the Pony Express Museum, and my mood improved.


That was a fun, well put together museum. We got to see a lot of life size models? I'm not sure what you would call it, but there was a guy on a horse and stuff, it looked like he was ready to leave the stable for a mail delivering adventure.

Then we got to swap mochilas from one saddle to another. Mochilas are the leather thing that goes over the saddle that holds about 20 pounds of mail. Overall there was a lot of art, a lot of maps…I enjoyed it, it was fun.

Me and Russell. Yes, I'm wearing my Pony Express shirt I got last summer in Nebraska


My focus on Russell is mainly for my aunt who lives on Russell Road, in a neighborhood with streets Majors and Waddel. together these guys were the super team that created the Pony Express

I liked this cuz of the part saying they won't use profane language and they won't quarrel or fight