Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle: William Henry Bush (West Texas A&m University Series, 1) – Paul Howard Carlson Exclusieve Aanbieding

In 1881, a Chicago-based businessman secured interest in a sprawling ranch in the heart of Texas’ great Panhandle. The celebrated Frying Pan Ranch spread across two counties and bordered what later became Amarillo, a raw frontier settlement. The land’s unlikely new owner from the North, William Henry Bush – clothing wholesaler, real estate developer, philanthropist, and fledgling cattleman – represented a new figure at the beginning of the boom era in the Western cattle industry. An outsider, he brought his…