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When I walked into the temporary home of the Nokona Athletic Goods Co.’s baseball glove factory in Nocona, Texas, my career as a baseball player had come full circle. Twenty-two years ago, I was named catcher of the newly formed Dodd City High School baseball team. One of my first orders of business was to…

An East Coast society woman and a motherly rancher’s wife were the first two white women to have anything to do with ranching in the wild and formidable Palo Duro Canyon of Texas.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as the Victorian Era was being laid to rest, a few feminists began pushing for societal rights that had long been denied them. Many western women had already cast off strictures that seemed irrelevant to their lives.

The Bradley 3 Ranch, founded in 1955, covers more than 11,000 acres of Childress County. There’s a slight rise in the middle of the ranch where you can stand at night and see the lights of Childress 11 miles to the south, Memphis 19 miles west, Wellington 30 miles north and Hollis, Oklahoma, 30 miles…

Mosey on over to catch a glimpse
of Texas’ frontier past