FIRST - Dugout Home on the Plains - Carson County, TX
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YoSam.
N 35° 32.487 W 101° 24.167
14S E 282175 N 3935746
About a 1/4 mile north of Ranch driveway, this roadside turnout presents the THC marker and 1965 info.
Waymark Code: WM139XH
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/22/2020
Views: 2
County of Marker: Carson County
Location of Marker: TX-207, roadside turnout, 14 miles N. of Panhandle
Marker Erected by: State Historical Survey Committee
Date Marker Erected: 1965
Marker Text:
6666
DIXON CREEK RANCH
Takes name from creek where noted buffalo hunter and
scout Billy Dixon established first dugout home on High Plains, 1874.
Ranch founded, 1882, by Francklyn Land and Cattle Co., English firm backed by Cunard Steamship Co. Fenced, 1884, with barbed wire hauled here from railroad at Dodge City; posts were of Palo Duro Canyon cedars.
Purchased in 1903 by S. Burk Burnett (1849-1922), trail driver, rancher; an organizer and for 45 years on executive board, Texas Cattle Raisers Association. Host during 1905 wolf hunt to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
(Ranch Not Open to the Public)
(1965)
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