![]() The last heads of cattle were sold in 1912, and the ranch was no more. They were also trying to deal with rustlers and wolves preying on their cattle, and it was just too much land to handle. This was due in part to the massive size of the ranch, and the fact that the cattle market crashed shortly after it opened. Unfortunately for the ranch, it did not last long. The Ranch featured 325 windmills, 100 dams for water regulation, and at one point, they had more than 150,000 head of cattle. Whichever version might be true, both are certainly interesting. Using XIT as the brand was difficult for rustlers to reproduce, so that is quite likely the reason it is called the XIT Ranch. As with many ranches of the day, they needed to have a brand made to help reduce the problems with cattle rustling. Learn how Bradley 3 Ranch came to be, starting with Mary Lou Bradleys Great Grand Pappy, a wagon boss for the XIT ranch and founder of Bradley 3 Ranch. ![]() XIT, which started its operations as a ranch in 1885, was so large that it stretched across many counties including Baily, Castro, Cochran, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Hockley, Lamb, Oldham, and Parmer. However, there is another legend as to how they came up with the name for the ranch. It incorporated 1,500 miles of fencing around the perimeter of the massive ranch. There is a myth that the name XIT actually stood for Ten in Texas, as it was covered parts of the ten aforementioned counties. It incorporated 1,500 miles of fencing around the perimeter of the massive ranch. During the 1880s, it was the largest ranch in the world, which also happened to be entirely fenced. It is the one volume that, more than any other, portrays the early-day cattle business of the West.XIT Ranch has a colorful and interesting history. The XIT Ranch of Texas is the epic account of a ranching operation about which many know a little but only a few very much. ![]() It is the story of a wild prairie, roamed by Indians, buffalo, mustangs, and antelope, that became a country of railroads, oil fields, prosperous farms, and carefully bred herds of cattle. Evetts Haley, now made available to readers every The development and operation of this pastoral enterprise and its relation to the history of Texas is the subject of this great and widely discussed book by J. This "desert" became a legend in the cattle business, and it remains today a memory to thousands who recall the era when mustangs and longhorns grazed beneath the brand of the XIT. The state of Texas patented this huge rectangle of land, at the time considered by many to be part of "the great American desert," to the Capitol Freehold Land and Investment Company of Chicago, in exchange for funds to erect the state capitol building in Austin. It was not the first ranch in West Texas, but after its formation in the eighteen-eighties it became the largest single operation in the cow country of the Old West and covered more than three million acres, all fenced. ![]() And the greatest of these was XIT -The XIT Ranch of Texas. Among the famous ranch brands of Texas are the T Anchor, JA, Diamond Tail, 777, Bar C, and XIT. ![]()
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