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In 1876 the Texas legislature established Ochiltree County from
lands formerly assigned to the Bexar District. Ranching arrived a
little later in Ochiltree County than it did farther south in the
Panhandle. By 1885 Henry W. Cresswell had purchased or leased most
of the county and established the Cresswell Ranch (Bar CC) on Wolf
Creek in the eastern part of the county and moved its headquarters
from Roberts County to the new site on Wolf Creek. |
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His company, the Cresswell Land and Cattle Company of Colorado, was
syndicated as the Cresswell Ranch and Cattle Company by 1885. The
Cresswell Ranch controlled most of the land in the county. Dee
Eubank and Tom Connell, who arrived on Wolf Creek in 1879,
controlled much smaller acreages in the eastern part of Ochiltree
and the western part of Lipscomb counties. After the blizzards of
1886-87 county lands were opened to settlement by stock farmers who
operated on a much smaller scale. |
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The availability of land in Ochiltree County coincided with the
proximity of a new railroad. In 1887 the Southern Kansas
Railway Company of Texas, a Santa Fe subsidiary, built a line from
Kansas through Oklahoma into the Panhandle via Canadian and
Panhandle. This line passed through Lipscomb County, thirty to forty
miles east of Ochiltree. Thus the county was only one or two days'
travel from the railroad. |
Cities and Towns
Booker
Perryton
Ochiltree
Ochiltree
County is the setting for the
Hank the Cowdog series of children's books. |
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