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	XIT Ranch Exhibit
		The ranch operated until 1912 but the last of the XIT lands were not sold by the Farwell heirs until 1963.
		The XIT Ranch ceased operations in 1912 but it remained alive in the memories of hundreds of cowboys who had worked on the legendary ranch.
		Forty years later, the XIT Museum was established at Dalhart, Texas to keep alive the memory of the biggest thing that ever exsisted in Texas.
	www.xitmuseum.com /exit.shtml (351 words)

	XIT Ranch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The XIT Ranch was a cattle ranch in the Panhandle of Texas which operated from 1885 to 1912.
		The ranch started operations in 1885 and at its peak averaged handling 150,000 head of cattle within its 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of fencing.
		The cattle on the ranch were constantly plagued by cattle rustlers and predators, especially wolves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/XIT_Ranch (350 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Clayton and Salvant, Historic Ranches of Texas
		The King Ranch personnel are sometimes credited with the discovery that Texas fever, a mysterious but deadly disease, was caused by a tick and that dipping stock in insecticide-laced water in a cement or stone vat was the solution.
		Hundreds of large ranches in existence for decades, some for more than a hundred years, are scattered over the less populous areas of the state, particularly from the brushy South Texas plains, in the portion of Texas west of Fort Worth, and in the northern Panhandle.
		The Yturria Ranch represents one of the ranches still belonging to the Spanish heritage to which all of Texas ranching owes its roots, and one of the current owners graciously consented to be included.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exclahis.html (2987 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		The last of the XIT cattle were sold on November 1, 1912, and land sales subsequently increased through the Capitol Reservation Lands, the new trust formed by the Farwell Estate in 1915.
		The romance of the XIT Ranch, enhanced by the spread's sheer size, lives on in western lore.
		In Dalhart memories of the ranch are kept alive in the XIT Museum and the famous "Empty Saddles" monument, as well as the annual XIT Reunion, complete with parade and rodeo.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/XX/apx1.html (2111 words)

	Ranch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Ranch is an area of landscape, including buildings and structures, given primarily to the grazing of livestock on rangeland by ranchers.
		Ranches may be of nearly any size and if the ranch includes arable or irrigated land, the ranch may also engage in raising crops, especially hay and feed grains.
		Dadanawa Ranch in Guyana raises horses on 4,500 km².
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ranch (205 words)

	XIT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The XIT Ranch (pronounced as initials) was the largest ranch in the world in the 1880s.
		The land comprising the ranch was traded by the State of Texas to the Capital Syndicate of Chicago in exchange for building the state capital in Austin.
		XIT Rodeo and Reunion - Held every year since 1925 to honor the cowboys who worked the ranch.
	www.dalhart.org /xit.htm (137 words)

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		The XIT Ranch in the late 1800s owned over 3 million acres of land in 10 Texas counties.
		The XIT was responsible for fencing 800 miles of fence and windmill crews drilled and constructed windmills across the entire ranch area.
		The XIT Ranch still held as much as 400,000 acres of land as late as 1929.
	www.litranch.com /Channing.htm (706 words)

	XIT Ranch
		In that position, Farwell spent some time at the ranch, where he occasionally held church services for the employees; his nephew Walter erected a summer residence near Channing that served as the new XIT headquarters.
		The last thirty-nine acres of XIT Ranch land in Farwell was sold in 1963.
		It was organized by John V. Farwell to raise finances to stock the XIT Ranch and to meet its tremendous operating expenses.
	www.redrat.net /family/xit.htm (1595 words)

	XIT Museum (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The XIT Museum is proud of not only the history and heritage of the Dallam-Hartley Counties area, but also of it's own history and heritage.
		The XIT Museum is proud to be part of recognizing area veterans.
		The XIT Museum staff is not only knowledgeable about our area, but also curious about other museums and historical sites of interest on the web.
	www.xitmuseum.com.cob-web.org:8888 (387 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Columns: Day Trips
		In the 1880s, the Panhandle ranch was the largest fenced range in the world and, for a time, was the leader in breeding stock and agriculture innovations.
		The ranch extended nearly 220 miles long and 30 miles wide in a jigsaw-puzzle-piece shape along the New Mexican border from Oklahoma to Lubbock.
		Across the street from the county courthouse in Dalhart, the XIT Museum houses relics from the ranch, as well as life in Dallam and Hartley counties.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=oid:392272 (825 words)

	Texas News
		Beginning in 1901, the XIT lands were sold to ranchers and farmers for money to redeem to bonds.
		Lacking trees for fences, the XIT had 1,500 miles of four-strand barbed wire around it and its 90 pastures, a total of 6,000 miles of wire.
		In the 1880s, the XIT was the largest range in the world under fence.
	www.texnews.com /texas97/xit022697.html (687 words)

	Dalhart, Texas
		XIT Rodeo and Reunion honors dwindling numbers of old-time XIT ranch hands and celebrates the heritage of the huge ranch.
		Designed by a cowboy after a widow asked that a horse bearing an empty saddle appear in annual reunion parade in tribute to her husband, a former XIT Ranch cowpoke.
		Over the years XIT lands have divided and sold to "smaller" ranchers, some of whom control 100,000 acres or more.
	www.lnstar.com /mall/txtrails/dalhart.htm (394 words)

	Duke, 6000 Miles of Fence, University of Texas Press
		This book of reminiscences of old XIT cowmen puts on record the everyday life of the individuals who made the ranch run.
		As the young wife of a rising young ranch hand, she kept in her apron pocket a notebook and pencil, recording all manner of interesting details as they caught her attention.
		Duke set about drawing from reticent, sometimes reluctant, ranch hands the impressions of the XIT (occasionally written down by their more literate wives or daughters) which they had retained through the years.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/books/duk600.html (371 words)

	Land and Livestock Post>News
		The XIT Ranch once spanned 3 million acres of the Texas Panhandle and spilled over into Oklahoma and New Mexico.
		Legend has it that the XIT name stood for “10 in Texas,”; because the 220-mile-long spread the size of Connecticut covered 10 Texas counties.
		He completed his 120,000-acre ranch with the 1943 purchase of a parcel from the Capitol Freehold Land Trust, which had taken control over the old XIT land.
	www.landandlivestockpost.com /news/030103legend.htm (893 words)

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		The ranch extended nearly 220 miles long and 30 miles wide in a jigsaw-puzzle-piece shape along the New Mexico border from Oklahoma to Lubbock.
		Urban myth says the XIT brand meant "10 in Texas" because the ranch covered all or part of 10 counties, but that could not be true.
		Across from the county courthouse in Dalhart, the XIT Museum houses relics from the ranch as well as life in Dallam and Hartley counties.
	www.theeagle.com /stories/081706/lifestyles_20060817041.php (668 words)

	History of the XIT Ranch
		The XIT Ranch in the 1880s was the largest range in the world under fence and it all laid in the Texas Panhandle.
		The XIT range was the largest in the world under fence.
		Thousands of hooves drummed up the trail and the longhorns were pushed on to the No. 1 division headquarters at Buffalo Springs, 32 miles north of Dalhart, now easily available by modern highway.
	www.xitmuseum.com /history.shtml (350 words)

	National Park Service - Prospector, Cowhand, and Sodbuster (Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings)
		This ranch was founded in 1879 when H. Campbell and A. Britton formed a partnership, acquired range rights from a buffalo hunter, and bought 8,000 head of cattle.
		The core of the old ranch, occupying 190 sections, is now owned by Fred C. Koch of Wichita, Kans. Only four buildings now extant antedate 1906: An old stone bunkhouse; a deserted stone icehouse; ruins of a windmill, milkhouse, and wellhouse; and a small white frame building.
		The second ranch in the Texas Panhandle, established the year after the JA Ranch, the T-Anchor was founded in 1877 by Leigh Dyer, brother-in-law of Charles Goodnight.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/prospector/sited14.htm (1404 words)

	Bailey County, TXGenWeb Project - USGenWeb Project
		The three million acres eventually became part of the sprawling XIT Ranch from which the Y-L and Muleshoe Ranches of Bailey County were formed in 1902.
		The XIT had its origin 1879 when the legislature set aside three million acres in Dallam, Hartley, Oldham, Deaf Smith, Parmer, Lamb, Bailey, Cochran, and Hockley counties to fund the building of the Capitol.qv In 1892 the XIT Ranch was organized with British backing; its landholdings included northern and southeastern Bailey County.
		Originally part of the vast XIT Ranch,qv the Muleshoe Ranch was begun in 1903, when Edward K. Warren and his son Charles, owners of the Warren Featherbone Company (a manufacturer of women's corsets in Three Oaks, Michigan), bought the YL Ranch, consisting of 40,000 acres, from J. Clark of Tennessee for $100,000.
	www.rootsweb.com /~txbailey/old_ranches.html (1188 words)

	milescity.com: history: stories: fanning the embers
		That ranch was operated on South Sunday Creek at the mouth of Louie and Scottie in 1895.
		That ranch was at the mouth of Squaw Creek.
		The smaller ranches were called the 'small punkin roller outfits' and there were many of those in addition to the big outfits that I have mentioned.
	www.milescity.com /history/stories/fte/ranchesinmontana.asp (1791 words)

	Exhibit reveals XIT Ranch's role in Capitol construction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		AUSTIN - A new exhibit celebrating the Panhandle's XIT Ranch and its part in constructing the Texas Capitol can be seen at the Capitol Complex Visitors' Center in Austin.
		The XIT Ranch was the largest fenced-in ranch in the world in the late 1800sgnnecticut It became one of the first ranches to use scientific practices to grow crops.
		Bill Green, curator of history at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, said many Texans are not aware that the XIT Ranch paid for the construction of the Capitol.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/022697/exhibit.htm (373 words)

	Capitol XIT Ranch & Certificate
		X was for the Roman numeral ten, since the land was spread across ten counties In Texas.
		The ranch was operated by a group of wealthy English investors known as the Capitol Freehold Land and Investment Company.
		This selection is an exact restrike of the exceedingly rare Partnership Certificate and is paired with a vintage photograph of the Texas Capitol–still the largest in the United States and taller than the Federal Capitol.
	www.galleryoftherepublic.com /texana/capitolxit.htm (146 words)

	Capitol Visitor Center Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		From this transaction, the XIT ranch was born.
		The 16 minute documentary details the evolvement of the project and the ranch from its formation to its eventual division and dissolution.
		Extensive research was provided by many sources including the XIT Museum in Dalhart and the Panhandle Plains Museum in Canyon.
	www.mediacottage.com /xit.html (267 words)

	The history of Farwell?
		The ranch became known as the XIT ranch and at the time was the largest ranch in the world.
		Folk lore has it that the XIT stands for "Ten in Texas" because the ranch covered ten counties in the Panhandle.
		However, the XIT was the brand used on the cattle the ranch owned.
	www.topix.net /forum/city/clovis-nm/T027F2V9K86TVKCJR (562 words)

	New Mexico Ranch and Farm Real Estate for Sale, Kern Land, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		century it was once a part of the famous XIT Ranch that encompassed close to three million acres in 10 Texas counties.
		The habitat of the ranch is ideal for quail hunting.
		Mule deer are found on the ranch and throughout the area, and the owner takes at least one good mule deer buck each season.
	www.kernranches.com /longview.htm (771 words)

	Recently Restored XIT Office Building For Sale By Owners
		His career in ranching was cut short by the War.
		While they bought the old XIT office, they also bought another home and spent two years restoring it before they began on the office.
		The building served as the headquarters for the XIT from 1898 to 1912.
	www.livestockweekly.com /papers/02/11/07/whlxit.asp (939 words)

	ExhibitsUSA-Training Needs Assessment for Texas Museums
		The Texas Panhandle’s XIT Ranch was, at one time, the largest range in the world under fence.
		The XIT Museum features exhibits on the XIT Ranch and ranching equipment, wagons, and several period rooms.
		The museum wisely scheduled the exhibition to coincide with the annual XIT Reunion and Rodeo, thereby bringing in a large number of visitors to Dalhart.
	www.maaa.org /help/tx/xit/xit.html (980 words)

	XIT Ranch
		Legend says the XIT took its name from the fact that the three million acres of ranch lands touched into ten counties in the western Texas Panhandle; the interpretation being "Ten In Texas".
		However, a more accurate map of the ranch shows that all except one small two mile area up in the northeast corner of Parmer County was included as ranch property.
		The XIT papers, consisting of thousands of documents pertaining to the operation of the ranch, are preserved in the archives of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum on the WTAMU campus in Canyon.
	www.rootsweb.com /~txparmer/towns/xitranch.htm (1549 words)

	Bradley 3 Ranch, Ltd. - History
		Bill and Minnie Lou were married and thus the FIGURE 3 BRAND was registered in Texas representing the third ranch and third generation of Bradleys to ranch in northern Texas.
		The entire ranch is grass and the cattle harvest all they consume, except for a manufactured feed supplement fed during the winter months.
		The Bradley 3 Ranch was awarded the Texas Land Stewardship Award in 1998 by Governor George W. Bush.
	www.bradley3ranch.com /history.html (1578 words)

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