Pioneer settlers in the early 1870s built adobe huts and irrigation ditches along area creeks. After 1875, village became a supply and shipping point for several huge Texas ranches, including the famed XIT and LIT. Bustling town was known as the Cowboy Capital of the Plains;
Boys Ranch, TX Ghost TownsWhen Tascosa was the wide open, riotous cowboy capital of the 1880
Boys Ranch, TX CemeteriesLocated at corner of U.S. 82 and Texas 6, impressive monument dedicated in 2000 honors allKnox County veterans from the Spani...
Collections from pioneer era, farm and ranch implements, guns, Indian artifacts, photographs, paintings....
Housed in the old Traweek Hospital built in 1928 by Dr. A.C. Traweek, Sr., the first medical doctor in the county. Exhibits i...
Named for the Sand Crawl formation south of town, the museum features pictorial representations of the area from Pleistocene ...
500-acre site on Lake Colorado City has cottages, boat ramp, rest rooms and picnic facilities; camping, fishing, swimming, sk...