From Spanish conquistadores and Indian battles to railroads and oil booms, Hemphill County, Texas, has seen it all. Located in the northeast Panhandle, Hemphill County is a land of sage-covered sand hills and rolling breaks, with towering buttes and deep canyons cut by the Canadian River. It is a place once inhabited by the ancient mammoth and mastodon and, more recently, thundering herds of bison.
For 200 years leading up to 1875 Native American tribes representing the Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, & others roamed the Panhandle following the buffalo herds.
In September 1875, two major battles of the Red River War occurred in current Hemphill County: the Battle of Lyman's Wagon Train and the Battle of Buffalo Wallow.
In 1886, the Southern Kansas Railway Company, a Sante Fe subsidiary, began to build a rail line into the Panhandle; reaching Hemphill County in 1887.
On July 4, 1888, the first rodeo in Texas, and perhaps the world, was held on Main Street of Canadian, Texas.
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