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Courtesy of Bobbi Alexander. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/5cffc289ec502e0001ff038b/5d07f580481e4f0001c5fd7b/1635459812593/Home+movie+Description.jpg Videos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1560267394830-2QKL5XRGMM6M5QQGUM6R/FS+movie.jpg Videos - Fort Stockton Centennial Parade 1959 In 1959 Fort Stockton celebrated its 100th anniversary with a big parade down Dickinson Boulevard. Here are some of the entries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1614733971100-CV4J8W4Y6N2EGIGQIK18/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Cannon fire at Horsehead Crossing Celebration, Oct.30, 2020 Cannon fire at the Horsehead Crossing Celebration, October 30, 2020. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/5cffc289ec502e0001ff038b/5d042b4baf44f500012f2d47/1560552490882/ Videos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1614734533849-Y6IMQGRZWIOVROWVU2LI/image-asset.jpeg Videos - GIANT set, 1955 On the GIANT set, the Evans Ranch, near Marfa in the summer of 1955. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1614734377853-PYKMFM1QIWSAXFQ3SBIM/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Horsehead Celebration v2 The promotional video for the Pecos County Horsehead Crossing Celebration that took place Oct. 30-31. https://www.pecoscountyhistoricalcommission.org/home daily 1.0 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1620755400072-IE3T285AN36R33EANL8I/Horsehead%2Bsmaller.jpg Pecos County Historical Commission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/b772c712-713b-4b89-a127-38f5d1b626b9/IMG_6213.jpeg Pecos County Historical Commission - Make it stand out Get ready to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1614732917282-67LLNUFSQGO6P12AVK17/metapth2471_xl_11895789.jpg Pecos County Historical Commission Pecos County, as it appeared on the map, when the Texas Legislature created it out of Presidio County in 1871. The name, “Pecos” derives from the Pecos River, the county’s boundary on the north and east, but the origin of the name remains a mystery. According to Adolph F Bandelier, the word was first applied by Juan de Onate, who in 1595 established the first settlement in New Mexico. Others have stated that the word is a corruption of a Mexican name for the stream, Rio Puerco, meaning “dirty river.” Elsie Parsons, another authority on New Mexico, claimed it is from the Jemez Indian name “Bahkyush”. It has also been been contended that it is a derivative of the Spanish word, pecoso (“freckled”). “Puerco” is the name of the river on most of the early Spanish maps of the area. The first county seat was St. Gall, a community near Comanche Springs that later became Fort Stockton. In 1868, Peter Gallagher bought the land that included the military garrison and Comanche Springs, platted 160 acres for a townsite named Saint Gall and established two stores at Comanche Springs. The Saint Gall area had been first surveyed in 1859 by Anson Mills of El Paso as a site for the original post. The platted subdivision shows “Initial Point Center of Plaza.” Zero Stone, in the center of the plaza, marks the base point for all surveys in what became Pecos County. Peter J. Gallagher, born in Ireland, was a general merchant with two stores and a personal estate of $10,000. He had two store clerks, John Moczygemba from Prussia and Gerard Storms from Belgium. Although probably not a United States citizen, Moczygemba in 1869 had been elected, but never qualified as the Justice of the Peace of Precinct 1. Gallagher had two other employees, a Bavarian and a Frenchman, who was by trade a brick mason. He had two stores, one 1,000 yards from the parade grounds, likely the present Koehler’s store near the creek, and another 400 yards from the parade ground, a large establishment southwest of the present courthouse and diagonally across from the James Hotel. Joseph Heid, from Baden, Germany, operated a saloon, and his wife, Wilhelmina, from Prussia, ran a boarding house for carpenters and mechanics. According to the 1870 census, the population of Saint Gall region was 582, of whom 429 were civilians. The population was unusually cosmopolitan. Of the persons listed in the census, more than half (298) were foreign born, mostly from Mexico (261), but nine other foreign nations were represented: Ireland, 15; Prussia, 8: France, 7: Scotland, 2; Baden, 1: Bavaria, 1: Belgium, 1; Denmark, 1; and Malta, 1. The majority of the enlisted men at the fort (the Buffalo Soldiers) had been recruited in Louisiana after the Civil War. Saint Gall became a supply center for the army, mail stages, wagon trains and travelers. One of the first attempts at irrigation farming in Texas took place near the settlement in the 1870s by Felis Garza and Cesario Torres. When Pecos County was formally organized on March 9, 1875, Saint Gall became the county seat. The name, however, was never popular with the citizens, and on August 13, 1881, it was changed officially to Fort Stockton in an election ordered by the commissioner’s court. The voters, by a majority of 64 to 29 favored Fort Stockton over Saint Gall. https://www.pecoscountyhistoricalcommission.org/horseheadcrossing daily 0.75 2025-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1549905962636-0STU98M2WQHJKJVLE3R7/IMG_1445.JPG HORSEHEAD CROSSING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1562104810074-JX0GQ5O4W89CVN2EGODI/1.jpg HORSEHEAD CROSSING The Goodnight-Loving trail was one of the first long cattle drives to a distant market. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1492549088105-IKZKLIODGVQGMDCQM8BC/Goodnight.jpg HORSEHEAD CROSSING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1492549098540-INFB59H1T0HID4RO8TKN/Oliver+Loving.jpg HORSEHEAD CROSSING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1492549109592-TJ9Y4RHXORL7VI5DN2BD/Chuckwagon2.jpg HORSEHEAD CROSSING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1492549131168-7R2CCG3FBBLHHFT07WDT/Gus+and+Woodrow.jpg HORSEHEAD CROSSING https://www.pecoscountyhistoricalcommission.org/contact daily 0.75 2020-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1488336415359-CWDCNNP8QYGXWQZ6SOUX/Roland+at+home.jpg Contact Us https://www.pecoscountyhistoricalcommission.org/hovey-school daily 0.75 2022-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/e83b529a-e182-47ac-9187-f835a4445a45/thumbnail+-+Copy.jpg Hovey School - Make it stand out The historic Hovey School at sunset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1490013494154-ARWRWHUV0IDX5ZOXRMN9/Hovey+school+w+PCHC+members.jpg Hovey School https://www.pecoscountyhistoricalcommission.org/oldjail daily 0.75 2024-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1489354168962-BYVA34WAQF1PUIB45C1G/Old+Jail Old Jail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1492110490125-I7EJ79HAZE2RI1Y2NYVA/Old+jail.jpg Old Jail The Pecos County Jail as it looked shortly after construction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1492110620039-5LFYV64US6IJC8M9DBIW/Dudley+S.+Barker Old Jail Infamous Pecos County Sheriff Dudley S."Dud" Barker (third horseman from the left in the bow tie) while a Texas Ranger under the command of Captain Bill McDonald. Barker later went on to become Pecos County Sheriff, a post he held from 1904 to 1926 while living in the Old Jail with his family. He was known for his strict enforcement of Prohibition, a stance which irritated many Pecos County citizens, but to which he replied, "I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." Barker and his family lived in the Pecos County Jail during his term, which had living quarters for this purpose located downstairs, below the jail cells. Pecos County historian Olan George recalled that during Barker's time as sheriff, the front yard of the old jail was his pride and joy. Back then the prisoners could be used for work, so the sheriff spent many hours along with his prisoners doing yard work. "Had there been such an award back then, the old jail with its grass, hedges, flowers and trees would have been chosen Yard of the Month." Sheriff "Dud" Barker was drafted into the sheriff's office. After the assassination of Sheriff A.J. Royal at his desk (a killing that was never solved) a group of Fort Stockton's political leaders visited with Barker and asked that he run for sheriff in the 1904 election. According to Roland Warnock, this citizens' group first approached the Texas Rangers to inquire about someone who could straighten out things in their town. "I have a man," replied the Ranger captain, "But I have to tell you that if you make him your sheriff, he'll BE your sheriff." (Click the audio box at the bottom of this page for an oral history) "That's what we want," replied the group. "Someone who will put an end to all of this monkey business." Little did they know how prophetic that Ranger captain's words would become. Barker began his 22-year tenure on January 1, 1905, and according to long-time resident and historian Olan George, one of the first things Barker did was spy on a poker game being played by the town's prominent citizens. Because gambling was against the law, he visited each of the players individually and asked that they pay their fines without asking any questions. They did. On the night of November 8, 1912, Sheriff Barker shot and killed eight Mexican railroad workers who had been drunk at a cantina. The group had run off Tom Scott, the deputy Barker had sent to quiet the drunks down. Barker put on his gunbelt, then told Scott to go home and stay out of sight, which he did. Before the sun rose the next morning, he would have killed eight men. Few people asked how many were armed, or if any of the dead men had drawn a gun on Barker. No questions were asked, and Barker continued to be the "true law west of the Pecos." Sheriff Barker ran his own brand of justice, with the statement, "I don't make the laws, I just enforce them," and nowhere was this more evident than during Prohibition. Most of the adjoining counties had law enforcement that winked at illegal liquor. Not Sheriff Barker. Pecos County was one of the most dreaded counties in Texas for bootleggers, or prominent citizens who happened to be caught with booze. Their arrests turned more of the city leaders against him, but he was re-elected. The turning point came when one of Barker's deputies was caught in bed with another man's wife. The deputy shot and killed the husband who had surprised them, then tried to hide the body on Sierra Madera, the mountain just south of Fort Stockton on Highway 385 to Marathon. He had no way of knowing that a hunting party had set up a camp near where he planned to dispose of the body. The hunting party was on the Sierra Madera at the invitation of Mack Adams, the manager of the E.L. Ranch (now known as the La Escalera Ranch). It included Sheriff Dud Barker and Hood Mendel along with some other men. Hood and Barker volunteered to go shoot some camp meat, and were about 10 minutes out of the camp when they encountered the deputy making a large pile of wood. Startled, he offered no explanation, so Barker dug into the pile until he found a man's foot and leg. The deputy explained that the man had come at him with a pair of scissors and he shot him in self defense. Barker didn't arrest the man, or even take his gun, but told him to go on. This enraged Hood Mendel, so much so that he and Barker soon became bitter enemies. In the election of 1926 Barker was defeated at the polls. He waited until the last, legal day of his term, December 31, then loaded his family's possessions onto trucks parked by the old jail. Before midnight, he and some men he had in readiness "took the necessary tools and chopped and cut every tree, hedge and flower right down to the ground and left them laying there as he headed for Alpine where he would make his home for the rest of this life." Reprinted from A Roundup of Memories, by Olan George, copyright 1987, Pioneer Book Publishers For some oral history accounts of Sheriff Dudley S. Barker by Pecos County pioneer, Roland Warnock, click the boxes below. Both come from the Baylor University Department of Oral History, and were recorded in 1973, in Pecos County. https://www.pecoscountyhistoricalcommission.org/historical-markers daily 0.75 2017-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1489351536748-OY45G1QSI47AYG7O9EHB/map_county.jpg Historical Markers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1489352330258-AA4AE9WD18TNXD3GKSKS/image-asset.jpeg Historical Markers https://www.pecoscountyhistoricalcommission.org/new-page daily 0.75 2022-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1549904245305-5VM4T4FPS4VY8796N8CR/Solo+logo.jpg Pecos County in World War II Solo, a donkey, was chosen for the Gibbs Field mascot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1549904325288-TPGN917VHX0PK5YTJMNH/Solo+Kiss.jpg Pecos County in World War II Whenever a cadet completed his first solo flight, he had to kiss the real Solo mascot kept at the air base. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1549904103731-WB4J0NWTLV8HSO0J7UVB/AT-6.jpg Pecos County in World War II North American Aviation T-6 Texan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1549904130132-J2JQ67IP5HCUJ8XR6XSB/PT+19.jpg Pecos County in World War II Fairchild PT-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1549907836657-9IPJN3E4NS1EUI0QRK7O/Lost+Cadets.jpg Pecos County in World War II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1549907912647-EJTLUY117UIE2D7LN59H/Lockheed+Lightnings.jpg Pecos County in World War II A pair of P-38 Lightnings flying over the Sierra Madera just south of Fort Stockton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/3a43f662-8cd0-42f6-910a-83a980f7f22d/tempImage6Oj8Ty.jpg Pecos County in World War II - Make it stand out The old control tower at what was once Gibbs Field. https://www.pecoscountyhistoricalcommission.org/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2019-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1549908397950-CWJ080HHY3CCONWL04SN/gen-henry-sibley.jpg Famous Visitors Confederate General H.H. Sibley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1549908913907-HA64AL58U8CN2AM3ARVK/Camels.jpg Famous Visitors Jefferson Davis theorized that camels could be used to chase the Comanches and other native Americans because of their ability to survive in the desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1549911905976-BVEI8AWH84MU05T2ONP3/Conquistador.jpg Famous Visitors https://www.pecoscountyhistoricalcommission.org/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2024-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1549914872953-XOEFM5NWEU77EQWVDF0Q/Comanche+Springs1.jpg Comanche Springs Comanche Springs in 1948, when it was fed by nearly 60 million gallons a day of spring water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1549915080074-G2WSIA81SH1M0F6LNIZN/1949-water-carnival.jpg Comanche Springs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1549915246290-USDR1B224825A9URW5Q4/Comanche+Springs.jpg Comanche Springs Comanche Springs, before the concrete pool was built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/74f34366-7c3c-4a34-8c83-b7bb389afa34/Springs+Map+copy.jpg Comanche Springs - Make it stand out Map of the spring heads that fed the Comanche Springs system. The Big Chief was the largest, but there were seven spring heads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/fce046d1-56f7-4493-ad1c-9320acca6dc7/WC+rehearsal+barrels.jpg Comanche Springs - Make it stand out Rehearsing for the Miss Fort Stockton pageant in 1939. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/eb24be68-a015-4963-ab2d-9daef1999778/Govt+Springs+wading+pool.jpg Comanche Springs - Make it stand out Government Springs, or what was called “the kiddie pool” because children waded in it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/2a63c141-ca00-4430-bc2e-3bf55b0b4a2b/Spring+City+of+TX.jpg Comanche Springs - Make it stand out Promotional brochure touting Comanche Springs. https://www.pecoscountyhistoricalcommission.org/new-page-3 daily 0.75 2021-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1561124371199-E3UKNCF6PPD0I8GYG8ZG/Sheep+loading.jpg Sheep Ranching in Pecos County Although the cowboy remains a constant icon of the west, for several decades Pecos County and much of West Texas had more sheep than cattle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1561066124295-0B38FN3K9EJI2R31HLAM/IMG_0714.JPG Sheep Ranching in Pecos County Arthur Anderson, the pioneering sheep rancher who built the Hat A Ranch into a Pecos County empire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1561651735545-S9W3XPVNX0UWA05WK7XI/Feeding%2Bsotol.jpg Sheep Ranching in Pecos County Feeding sotol to goats during the drought of the 1930s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1612819622524-HU1SIBRI0CPWIW0W4WE6/IMG_9233.jpeg Sheep Ranching in Pecos County Label on a wool blanket produced at the El Dorado Woolen Mill in the 1960s. (From the Warnock Collection.) https://www.pecoscountyhistoricalcommission.org/the-spaniards daily 0.75 2022-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/1620755903861-QI1EN5SSG5JJ9HXRDAPL/The+Conquistadores.jpg The Spaniards Although most US history textbooks label the settlement at Jamestown, VA as the first in America, the Spaniards were in Texas and the southwest almost 80 years earlier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/3fd241da-77e4-410a-9ca3-46f9d7c20105/Irrigation+ditch.jpg The Spaniards - Make it stand out The irrigation ditch dug by Cesario Torres, Bernardo Torres and Felis Garza for watering crops with the runoff from Comanche Springs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/6957f42c-d5da-46d1-82f0-3a804add36f7/tempImageeqi2qQ.jpg The Spaniards - Make it stand out The old Torres Brothers and Felis Garza irrigation ditch as it looks today (2022). It crosses Warnock Road, about a quarter mile off of Interstate 10, south of exit 264. https://www.pecoscountyhistoricalcommission.org/new-page-4 daily 0.75 2023-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/325fc230-9e70-43e3-8e08-b6105a2ed01c/Seven+Mile+picnic.jpg Roland Warnock: Oral histories of Pecos County Roland Warnock and Harry Petsch with two. unidentified ladies, up on Seven Mile Mesa in 1919. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/3c1d2226-e361-437b-b5ab-cce62e8e019a/Roland+leaving+hospital.jpg Roland Warnock: Oral histories of Pecos County - Make it stand out Roland Warnock, leaving the hospital after recovering from his gunshot wound, with his wife, Marie Warnock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/3ae14b52-6d64-49bb-84e5-8d56248c15d5/tempImagezczlY6.jpg Roland Warnock: Oral histories of Pecos County - Make it stand out Seven Mile Mesa as it appears today just south of Interstate 10, about six miles east of Fort Stockton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/588b7d845016e10c5240e27a/f2534c14-8102-45cf-84bf-58156a8579f4/hay.jpg Roland Warnock: Oral histories of Pecos County - Make it stand out Roland Warnock (horseback) working his hay baler with his uncles, Arch and Lige Warnock, in an alfalfa field at Fort Stockton. 1918. 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