The Jackrabbit
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N 31° 50.983 W 102° 22.465
13R E 748442 N 3526783
This marker, complete with a recipe on the back, is on a post next to a giant jackrabbit in Odessa, TX.
Waymark Code: WM1XAQ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/25/2007
Views: 49
Index Entry: Jackrabbit
City: Odessa
County: Ector
Subject Codes: AN;
Year Marker Erected: 1964
Marker Location: Corner of W. 8th & W. Sam Houston, Odessa
Marker Size: 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 5362
Marker Text:
True plains Rabbit. Lives only in the west. Burro-like ears gave him his name. color is protective, blending with sand and dry grass. Very long legs make him a swift runner, clocked at speeds to 45 miles an hour. Object of hunts with Greyhounds.
Was prized by plains Indians for food and fur. to white man a reminder of desert-hard life. In drouth and depression, meat source for thousands.
Subject of tall tales. Actual hero of world's only Jackrabbit Rodeo, in Odessa, May 1932.
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