Editing Dallam County, Texas (section)

==History==
Dallam County was formed in 1876 from portions of [[Bexar County]]. It was named after [[James Wilmer Dallam]], the lawyer who made the first digest of Texas laws.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n98 99]}}</ref> The first settlement in the area followed in 1870, which resulted in the [[Red River War]] of 1874 and 1875 with the native Comanche and Kiowa tribes. In 1900–01, the [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad]] company built a stretch from [[Liberal, Kansas]], to [[Tucumcari, New Mexico]], which ran through the county.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} The location where the tracks met those of the [[Fort Worth and Denver Railway]] was named Dalhart. The name is taken from the first letters of Dallam County and Hartley County, between which the town's area is divided. Within a short time, the small railroad stop turned into a sizable town and was named county seat in 1903.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hcd01|title=Dallam County|website=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=December 28, 2023|last=Abbe |first=Donald R. |last2=Anderson|first2=H. Allen}}</ref>

Dallam County was one of the hardest-hit areas in the [[Dust Bowl]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/books/17lask.html?_r=0 | title=Laying Bare Dust Bowl's Scar Tissue | work=The New York Times | date=December 17, 2005 | access-date=January 17, 2014 | author=Laskin, David}}</ref>