Land Promoters Lure Settlers To Panhandle

The Texas legislature created 54 counties in the Panhandle and South Plains on Aug. 21, 1876, but it took more than lines on a map populate the last frontier in the Lone Star State.

The region was still cattle country well into the 1890s with only a scattering of villages like Clarendon and Tascosa. But the coming of the railroad, improvements in agriculture and a drastic drop in beef prices, which made the ranchers