Wheeler
Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Elliott
Mobeetie, TX
Fort Elliott, established June 5, 1875 to help keep Native Americans on their Indian Territory Reservations, was partially garrisoned by...
Custer on the Sweetwater
Wheeler, TX
Sweetwater Creek was essential to millions of southern buffalo In a region known as the Comancheria.
Fort Elliott Flagpole
Mobeetie, TX
First stood about a mile to the northwest, at Fort Elliott, established 1875 to protect the Texas Panhandle from Indians.
Greer County, Texas
Shamrock, TX
(To the east, in present Oklahoma) Created 1860; until 1896, one of largest counties in Texas.
Mobeetie
Mobeetie, TX
Oldest town in Texas Panhandle.
Mobeetie Post Office
Mobeetie, TX
Early mail service in Wheeler County was established at Fort Elliott.
Old Rock House
Mobeetie, TX
First substantial home in Wheeler County, built across creek from Hidetown, buffalo hunters' post, about 1875 for first sheriff Henry...
Shamrock Water Tower
Shamrock, TX
Soon after residents voted to incorporate in March 1911, Shamrock officials identified the need for a reliable waterworks for the city.
Shamrock's St. Patrick's Day Celebration
Shamrock, TX
Early area settler George Nickel and his wife, Dora (Haggard), raised their family in a dugout home in Wheeler County.