Billy the Kid
At the age of 19, Henry McCarty (aka Billy the Kid, aka, aka Henry Antrim, aka William H Bonney) came into the Texas Panhandle in the fall of 1878. Billy and his gang, the Regulators, were running from the law after …
Tascosa’s Big Gunfight
During the early 1880’s the large cow outfits and the small ranchers were in a constant struggle over the use of the open range. Pat Garrett was hired by the large ranches and made a Captain of the newly formed panhandle …
History of Travel to Boys Ranch
On a cold, windy morning in March of 1939, four men climbed into a car especially built for rugged terrain and followed a rough, winding road across the prairie to the skeletal remains of Old Tascosa. Behind the wheel was Julian …
The Boy in the Photo
Earl spent his first seven years in a children’s home before he arrived at Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch in 1957. One sunny day when he was nine years old, he was playing in the plum patch at Boys Ranch and standing in …