FRONTIER COLOSSUS
True West
|March-April 2025
A LOOK BACK AT THE LEGENDARY TEXAS COWBOY WHO TRANSFORMED THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
He almost single-handedly created the cattle industry, invented the chuck wagon, was an innovator for modern irrigation, helped save the buffalo from potential extinction, fought Indians, befriended Indians, scouted the plains, hauled freight, hanged rustlers, saved lives, kept his promises, founded the first ranch on the Texas Panhandle, is considered by some to have been the first Landman, and posthumously served as the inspiration for Larry McMurty’s lead character “Captain” Woodrow F. Call in the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove. Few men could have boasted of having blazed such an impactful trail across the American West throughout their lifetime. While the “Father of the Texas Panhandle” rarely gloated over his own accomplishments, True West is only too happy to celebrate the extraordinary life and achievements of a true colossus of the frontier. Was “The Colonel” the original man of vision? Yes, a hell of a vision.

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