On East Main Street (Business Interstate 25) at North Commercial Street, on the right when traveling west on East Main Street.
Before homesteaders began farming the plains, before barbed wire sliced the prairies into neat squares, and before windmills spiked the horizon, huge open-range ranching operations controlled thousands of square miles of grasslands. Enormous herds . . . — — Map (db m280698) HM
On State Highway 70 1 mile south of U.S. 62, on the left when traveling south.
The Matador Cattle Company began as an open range ranch in 1879 when Henry H. Campbell, A. M. Britton, and three others bought range rights in this area.
In 1882, the ranch was purchased by Scottish investors, who formed the Matador Land & . . . — — Map (db m104709) HM
