Search Results: Authors starting with X from Gene W. Baade Books on the West

Dalhart: Dalhart Pub Co, 1940. First Thus. Soft cover. Collectible Good. Original issue. 4to pictorial wraps. 88pp. Illus. Ads. Published in Dalhart, Texas. The XIT was once considered (around 1886) the largest ranch in the world, and it was fenced. The land was acquired by a Chicago syndicate in exchange for paying for the new Texas State Capitol building. The ranch, composed of 10 units, lay along the western border of the Texas Panhandle shared with New Mexico and the western end of the Oklahoma Panhandle. Its fame and history was written by J. Evetts Haley. Good copy, actually vg. Wonderful short pieces biographical and otherwise, photos of old ranchers and cowboys, and great regional/local ads.