[Running Section Lines in the Texas Panhandle]

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Photograph of the Escarbada Outfit, a division of the XIT Ranch, plowing section lines in the Texas Panhandle. The figures in the photo are, from left to right, Babe the horse, Barrington Poynton, J. C. Tolman, P. G. Omohundro, Charley Howard, Asher McCullough, Watt Morris, and another horse named Yellow Hammer.

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1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 11 x 13 cm.

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: Bill and Marcella Bradly Collection and was provided by the Deaf Smith County Library to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 696 times. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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Deaf Smith County Library

Located in the western Texas Panhandle, the Library serves Hereford and the surrounding area. From its start as a small room in the Hereford Bank in 1910 to its current role as a technological and education center, the Library has continued to uphold its mission to provide access and promote learning in the community.

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Photograph of the Escarbada Outfit, a division of the XIT Ranch, plowing section lines in the Texas Panhandle. The figures in the photo are, from left to right, Babe the horse, Barrington Poynton, J. C. Tolman, P. G. Omohundro, Charley Howard, Asher McCullough, Watt Morris, and another horse named Yellow Hammer.

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1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 11 x 13 cm.

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From the dec 1925 Texaco Star with permission of Texaco.

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Ira Aten, former Texas Ranger and Castro County Sherriff became the first foreman of the Escarbada Outfit, a division of the XIT Ranch, in 1893. This picture was taken on the Llano Estecado at a time when there were only 36 houses in the Panhandle of Texas outside of Fort Elliot and the little town of Mobeetie Because of devastating prairie fires, furrows were plowed at convenient intervals and the fresh dirt often stopped the progress of the fire. These fire guards served the added purpose of collecting fuel. The quantities of small chunks piled up on the windward side of the furrow shown in the photo are "buffalo chips" which supplied the only fuel obtainable on the plains.

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Bill and Marcella Bradly Collection

Photographer Bill Bradly documented the people and businesses of the Deaf Smith County area, represented here. Funding provided in part by Humanities Texas, the state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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[Running Section Lines in the Texas Panhandle], photograph, Date Unknown; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth13593/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.

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