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During the early 1870s
buffalo hunters traversed the area from the east, slaughtering the
great southern herd as they went. In 1873 James H. Cator and his
brother Robert, both buffalo hunters from England, established an
outpost in what became Hansford County. They named this
semipermanent camp Zulu, and it soon became known as Zulu Stockade.
Over the next four years the buffalo were wiped out. In the Red
River War of 1874 the Comanches were conquered; they were removed to
Indian Territory in 1875 and 1876. |
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In 1876 the Texas
legislature marked off Hansford County from land previously assigned
to Young and Bexar districts; the new county was administered by
authorities in Wheeler County. By 1880 the United States census
counted eighteen people living in the county. That same year the
county's first town, Farwell, was established near the center of the
county; in 1887 Hansford, a stage stop on the old Tascosa-Dodge City
Trail, was established near Farwell on Palo Duro Creek. In 1889,
when the county was politically organized, Hansford outpolled
Farwell in a county-seat election. |
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The arrival of farmers
led to major changes in the economy and structure of the county. In
1920 the North Texas and Santa Fe Railway built a line from
Shattuck, Oklahoma, to its new townsite of Spearman in southeastern
Hansford County, and more and more farmers arrived to buy promising
lands. Spearman soon became the leading town in the county; it
absorbed both Farwell and Hansford by the mid-1920s, and in 1929 it
became the county seat. |
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