PlainsCapital's unique corporate culture centers around the company's core values of serving customers, shareholders, employees and communities. Our mascot, "Mo" the Buffalo also plays a big role in fostering a "Culture of Fun" with our employees and customers across the state.

In 2006, Mo became PlainsCapital’s live mascot and appears at many events across the state. Owned by Mark Worthington and his daughter Bree, Mo makes his home in Weatherford. “Mo” is short for momentum - symbolizing the strength, stability, pride and momentum of PlainsCapital. “We wanted to pick a name that means something to our employees,” stated PlainsCapital Corporation Chairman and CEO Alan B. White. “Momentum is one of my favorite words. You have to have Momentum to achieve your goals in life.”

Fun Facts

The Buffalo is the largest land mammal found in North America since the end of the Ice Age. Technically they are Bison. They have virtually no relatives other than the Wisent, a species of this shaggy animal that lives in north-central Europe and of which there are a limited number.

• Before northern Europeans settled North America, there were an estimated 30-70 million bison ranging across the continent, from Alaska to at least the northern tier of Mexican states. The oldest herd fossils remaining in the lower 48 states are more than 100,000 years old.
• To the American Indians, before the arrival of Europeans, these animals provided an unending supply of food and raw material for tools, clothing and other products.
• According to pioneer journals and scientific estimates, bison moved in herds that varied from 500-animals to more than 500,000.
• By 1889, less than 1,000 were left and those were saved by the combined efforts of William Hornaday (Director of the Bronx Zoo) and a small group of ranchers. In 1905, the American Bison Society was formed to save the bison and protect rangeland for the animals. Today, those efforts are carried on by the National Bison Association and the Canadian Bison Association. The bison herds of today number in excess of 350,000 and are growing.
• Bison love water. They have the ability to smell water from miles away, and are excellent swimmers.
  At birth, they weigh around 40-pounds and shortly after birth calves are standing, nursing and able to keep up with their mothers and the herd.
• Bison calves grow and develop rapidly, typically weighing about 450 pounds by their first birthday. They mature in 5-6-years, with cows weighing about 1,000-pounds and bulls weighing from 1,500 to over 2,000-pounds.