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Mike Ford

Places To Go In Texas

The XIT Ranch - I have been told XIT means 10 (X) counties In Texas

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History of the XIT Ranch

The Thumbnail History says, "The XIT Ranch in the 1880s was the largest range in the world under fence and it all laid in the Texas Panhandle. It's three million acres sprawled from the old Yellow House headquarters, near what is now Lubbock, Texas, northward to the Oklahoma Panhandle, in an irregular strip that was roughly 30 miles wide."

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North Richland Hills Texas

3 Days in the Field: At the Top of Texas in Dalhart

Destination: Dalhart From Texas Parks & Wildlife

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Western Trips

The XIT Ranch's 3 Million Acres Built The Texas State Capitol

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XIT Ranch General Office 1899

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Windmill Tower

Texas Tech University Campus

Interactive Kiosks

Southern Architecture

Mexican Revolution

Seventh Generation

zisdesign.com

Surviving building of the Escarbada Division Headquarters of the XIT ranch, the largest ranch under fence in the U.S. and probably the world. It also had the most windmills of any ranch - some 335. Among them was the tallest windmill tower of any known in the world, “lifting its wheel 130 feet above the canyon floor to catch the wind sweeping across the Plains.”

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Jim Perry (1858-1918) •

Jim Perry (1858–1918) was an African American cowboy and top hand, the highest-ranked cowboy, on the three million-acre XIT Ranch Texas. Perry established himself as an expert roper, rider, bronc buster, cook and musician.