Speakinmg of Pitchfork and 4 sixes, Great Grandad George Milton Moxley had children by first and second wife who left Erath County to work on 6666Ranch and Pitchfork Ranch-= some would work a few years at one and move to the other. These included Higdon, Higbee, Darnell and possibly Arendell. One left the ranches to run a newspaper in Post. One was the first postmaster at Slaton- I have her photo, and in letters home Some of the Darnell- or Higdons wrote home about trips to Guthrie, Texas ( the Courthouse there has a pasture fence on two sides). and a small school- church community building was out of Gutherie a few miles. . The Darnell at Pitchfork Ranch was responsible for farming and raising winter grazing- of grain and summer hay, but he also helpped with Roundups. Swenson, Pitchfork, and 4 -6's Ranch hands were pooled for roundups and branding with proper brand. One of Grandmother Wyly's sisters said she and other women ran the Chuck Wagon outdoor cooking 3 meals a day. Thresher crew slept in barns or under wagons or trees before WW2. Know the difference between a Cook Shack and a Chuck Wagon? Early Thresher crews like Riggs, Hollis, Anderson had the Cook shacks- an Iron Wheeled wagon with a shack built on it and fold down sides fror tables and fold up sides to break the sun. I carried wood for Rigs Thresher Crew when small. I have seen Melvin and Toad Riggs sit near the cook stove and drink hot coffee off the wood cook stove in the wagon. One of the Higdons left Erath County and was a Pitcher with New York Giants. Nancy Wyly Hise is doing extensive history of these families and burning CD history of them. Her Husband Billy was born on the Swenson Ranch near Stamford. Also, Slaughter Ranch has some buildings donated to Texas Tech outdoor Frontier History park-- next to Buddy Holly MuseumTexas Tech, surrounded by a tall dirt Brim. When Slaughter leases were divided for farm settlement around Levelland , Janice Wyly Slaughter(Of Erath County, Fort Worth, and Roswell) and son of George Slaughter- Donaho Wyly Slaughter donated the homes , dugout, line shack and some post holes and other items , and lived in Roswell with Corporate interests in Levelland and Albequerque. and Roswell. The Statue of Col. C.C. Slaughter - life size on his horse- stands near Buckner's Orphan Home in Dallas. Col. Slaughter gave them a big boost.My wife's dad, Alvin Riley of Cleburne moved to Levelland- then not a town, in 1920's and bought 160 acres from George Sahughter at Pettit with a wooden Windmill. He was on School Board at Pettit and was in the meeting in Lubbock when they picked Lubock for the Texas Tech campus location. Charles Wyly On Tue, 24 May 2005 11:01:07 -0700 (PDT) Sarah Herring Claburn <sbclaburn@yahoo.com> writes: > That is a GREAT web site! You can look up towns, > counties, people, and like I did the other night, > ranches. My husband and I looked up ranches to see how > big some of the famous ones are like the Pitchfork, > XIT (which is gone now), Four Sixes, Waggonner and the > JA. My husband played polo while we were at Tech (yes, > the kind on horses) and they used to have a match > every year with the cowboys at the Pitchfork. Great > entertainment! > > Sarah :) > > > --- mygen@att.net wrote: > > > This is the biography of Captain Richard King as > > found in "The Handbook of Texas." There are also > > articles about his wife, daughter, Mr. Kleberg, > > etc.; about 40 in all. You can use this link to > > find them all. Just type "King Ranch" in the search > > box. > > http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/ > > Sarah Herring Claburn > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=sarclaburn > > Researching: > Herring - Thornton - Sechrist - Lammert - Holder - Timian - Torrans > - Squyres - Claburn > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > -- Copyright 2005 Author -- All Rights Reserved > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com > ARCHIVES: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >