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===LX Ranch=== The LX Ranch was established in the county by W.H. "Deacon" Bates and David T. Beals by 1877. In July 1876, Bates, along with some cowboys, who included [[Charlie Siringo]], established a herd of steers and ranch headquarters along Ranch Creek on the north bank of the [[Canadian River]]. The headquarters eventually included a bunkhouse, kitchen, storeroom, stables, corrals, blacksmith shop, wagon sheds, and a post office named Wheeler. The LX also established the county's first cemetery. The ranch eventually extended from Dumas to the Palo Duro Canyon and 35 miles east to west. By 1884, the ranch encompassed 187,000 acres, 45,000 cattle, and 1000 horses, when the operation was sold to the American Pastoral Company. In 1902, the ranch headquarters were moved to Bonita Creek, on the south bank of the Canadian River. On October 6, 1910, that company sold 30,354 acres south of the river to Lee Bivins, and on June 1, 1911, R.B. "Ben" Masterson acquired 89,139 acres on the north side. On May 19, 1915, Bivins bought an additional 53,329 LX acres, which included the LX brand.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Archer |first1=Jeanne |last2=Taras |first2=Stephanie |title=Touching Lives: The Lasting Legacy of the Bivins Family |date=2009 |publisher=Tell Studios Inc. |isbn=9780974914862 |pages=45β57}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Pingenot |first1=Ben |title=Siringo |date=1989 |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |location=College Station |isbn=0890963819 |pages=3β13,56β58,121}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Siringo |first1=Charles |title=A Texas Cowboy, Or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony |date=1885 |publisher=Pantianos Classics |isbn=9781540575937 |pages=75,84β86,96,101β103,107,120,128}}</ref><ref name="Charles">{{cite book |last1=Siringo |first1=Charles |title=A Cowboy Detective |date=1912 |publisher=Arcadia Press |isbn=9781545001882 |pages=98β00}}</ref>
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