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Cowboys at the XIT Ranch in 1891. The XIT Ranch was a cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle which operated from 1885 to 1912. Comprising over 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km 2) of land, it ran for 200 miles (300 km) along the border with New Mexico, varying in width from 20 to 30 miles (30 to 50 km).
Santa Fe County, Texas formed in 1848 from lands claimed by the Republic of Texas and ceded by Mexico. It included a vast area later becoming portions of several states from New Mexico east of the Rio Grande extending northward into south-central Wyoming. Within Texas' modern boundaries, the county included the Trans-Pecos and most of the ...
[2] [3] Slaughter also purchased 5,000 cattle and brought 6,000 head of cattle he already owned. [3] Additionally, he changed the name to his cattle brand, 'U Lazy S', which he had registered during the American Civil War. [4] He built a ranchhouse in 1902 and acquired more acres, owning up to 126,227 acres a few years later.
He was born in Hardeman County, Tennessee, and moved with his family southwest across the Mississippi River to the newly independent Republic of Texas the year after the Texas Revolution (and brief war for independence from Mexico) in 1837, later finding work as a building contractor. He also served as a county clerk in Lamar County, Texas. He ...
After John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Hubert Humphrey easily carried the county in 1960, 1964, and 1968, respectively, [14] [15] [16] Cottle County again voted for the Democratic candidate in the 1972 election, as it was the only county in Texas north of Maverick County to have been won by George McGovern, albeit by a margin of only seven ...
Mar. 2—MIDLAND — For John Scharbauer, the Fifth Generation Rancher, the feeling might take a little bit longer to hit him that his family's cattle business, the Scharbauer Cattle Company is in ...
Lea estimated the 1855 expenses were smaller. The first brand was the ere flecha (an R with arrow through it). In 1859, the ranch recorded its first official brands (HK and LK). In 1869, the ranch registered its "Running W" brand, which remains the King Ranch's official mark today. [10] At the time, the ranch grazed cattle, horses, sheep and goats.
The standard Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association identification sign; photo taken near the ranch of Gene S. Walker, Sr., in Webb County, Texas.. Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, Inc., is an organization established in 1877 by forty Texas cattlemen for the purpose of combating unbridled livestock theft.