by Texas Slim | Nov 21, 2025 | History, Business, Cowboy Talk
If you rode into the Texas Panhandle in 1898, you were stepping into a different financial universe. No perpetual “operating lines.”No rolling paper stacked on top of last year’s mistakes.No banker in a tower deciding what your land was “worth” this quarter. Every...
by Texas Slim | Nov 10, 2025 | Business, History, Land Rights
The Texas Panhandle didn’t fall to war—it was sold off, one section at a time, in exchange for a building and a promise. By 1882, the Texas Legislature had grown tired of delays. The Capitol in Austin needed to be rebuilt. There wasn’t enough gold in the treasury to...
by Texas Slim | Nov 6, 2025 | Business, Cowboy Talk, History
Out here, the wind still talks. It moves across Palo Duro Canyon, the same red-walled fortress the Comanches once called home — their oasis, their refuge, their food chain. For three centuries they thrived here, hunting bison, rendering fat, living free. Now that land...
