Touch for a list and map of all markers in Dalhart. 0.4 miles away) Dalhart Army Air Field (approx. 0.4 miles away) Dallam County Courthouse (approx. 0.4 miles away) 305th Airdrome Squadron Memorial (approx. 0.4 miles away) Dalhart High School Boys World War II Memorial (approx. 0.4 miles away) Texas Sesquicentennial (approx. Cordia Sloan Duke (here, next to this marker) Dallam County (approx. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Marker is in this post office area: Dalhart TX 79022, United States of America. Marker can be reached from the intersection of North Denrock Avenue and Railroad Street. Marker is in Dalhart, Texas, in Dallam County. A significant historical year for this entry is 1882.
This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Agriculture Permanent tribute to XIT cowboys is this "empty saddle" monument,ĭesigned by Western artist Bobby Dycke, dedicated in 1940.Įrected 1968 by Texas Historical Commission. Dalhart holds an annual XIT reunion with rodeo and parade featuring a horse with an empty saddle, in honor of range riders of the past.
Although its land was parceled and sold, the XIT lives in Texas memories - especially here, 32 miles south of its Buffalo Springs headquarters. Trail Boss Abner Blocker delivered first herd to Buffalo Springs in 1885 and scratched the "XIT" in corral dust with boot heel to design famous brand. It included land in counties of Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Hockley, Lamb, Oldham, and Parmer. The grant, 200 miles long and of varying widths (enclosed later by a 6,000-mile barbed wire fence), extended from near site of present Lubbock to the Oklahoma line 40 miles north of here. Farwell) built the largest state capitol in North America and received in payment 3,000,000-acres of land. As contractors, some out-of-state investors (headed by the wealthy Chicago merchants, John V. Payment made in an 1882 contract for the construction of granite capitol building in Austin. This historical marker was erected in 1968 by Texas Historical Commission. Permanent tribute to XIT cowboys is this "empty saddle" monument, designed by Western artist Bobby Dycke, dedicated in 1940.
, Great Texas ranch of international fame.
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