The Land Report

Winter 2010

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To know the ranching culture of the Southern Great Plains is to know that it is a world built on grass. to market in Kansas, laying the financial foundation for the Waggoner empire. In June 1875, the Comanche chief Quanah surrendered to the U.S. Army at Fort Sill. The southern plains were now completely open to cattlemen. The Waggoner herd swelled westward, contained and controlled only by cowboys working from remote line camps. In 1879, the Waggoners moved their headquarters to China Creek, about seven miles north of present-day Electra. W.T. Waggoner made his last trail drive in 1882. A few months later, the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad reached Wichita Falls. The era of the great trail drives lasted little more than a decade.

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