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The Panhandle Party Girl
Starting with a small herd of longhorns in the 1850s, Dan Waggoner and his son, Tom, converted parts of six North Texas counties (Archer, Baylor, Foard, Knox, Wichita and Wilbarger) into a 750 square-mile cattle empire. By the end of the 19th century, the Three D Ranch covered more than a million acres. The ranch was the second largest in Texas after the King Ranch, about half the size of Rhode...