Holidays are a time for sharing memories, both old and new. And the Lone Star State required a statehouse worthy of its ambitions and its self-perception. Investors from the British Isles scrambled to place funds. Farther north, Dan and Tom Waggoner had stocked thousands of head between the Wichita and the Red Rivers. Samuel Burk Burnett’s 6666-branded cattle were already grazing on the open range along the Little Wichita. The Great Plains lobo was all but exterminated. Over the next three years, they slaughtered the remnants of the great Southern Herd. They had already annihilated the bison herds in Kansas. With the Red River War now ended, and the Comanche and the Kiowa penned up on reservations in Oklahoma, the commercial hide men descended on the Texas Panhandle like a plague. Only four years had passed since the great Comanche war chief Quanah Parker and his brave band of Kwahadis rode into Fort Sill and laid down their rifles. The acreage would be selected through a survey of the five-million-acre Capitol Land Reservation in the northwest corner of the Texas Panhandle, which extended 200 miles south to the storied yellow bluffs that had been known to Comancheros, Ciboleros, and Mexican and Spanish herdsmen as las Casas Amarillas – the Yellow Houses. On February 20, 1879, the 16th Texas Legislature passed a law appropriating 3,050,000 acres, the sale of which would fund the construction of a new statehouse. GAME PLAN Ben Baldus (left) and Drew Knowles (right) grab a quick chat at the Celebration of Champions. But in the current context, if you’re made a certain way, with certain connections and affections, that brand – XIT – might make the hair on your arms stand up. The brand it displays would be familiar to anyone even slightly familiar with Texas history.
They end up tying for third in the Open Two Rein World Finals, which helps propel them to win top honors as the 2021 NRCHA National Champions for sustained performance over a show season.Īt that moment, though, I couldn’t help but focus on the folded paper sign perched on the table before us. Sparkles and Koch ride into the arena and flat out nail it. “The hair on my arms stands up,” he says. “I guess you’ve done this enough times that you don’t get nervous?” I ask. “They ride with us, not for us,” he says.Īs Number 27 finishes to whoops and hollers, Knowles places his palms on the back of the chair in front of us. Koch and Ben Baldus are Knowles’s go-to guys. Bred by Wagonhound Land & Livestock, she’ll be ridden by Matt Koch. His entry, Number 28, is Smart Ladies Sparkle, a 7-year-old mare by the great WR This Cats Smart out of the Shining Spark mare Shiners Diamond Lady. When Number 26 pops up, Knowles makes his way to the Owner’s Table. During breaks between entries, he tells me about his goals for his Quarter Horse operation, which is based on his ranch outside La Veta, Colorado.Įvery few minutes, his eyes wander toward the far end of the arena where the lineup is listed. With his back against a wall, he’s got his hands in his pockets and his eyes on the action. He’s standing off by himself in the upper level of the John Justin Arena, watching the early morning hopefuls at the NRCHA Celebration of Champions in Fort Worth.
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