True Stories of Amazing People and Places in Texas

Hansford County, Texas from 1850 to 1950 as pictured in archived government photographs, vintage postcards, old school yearbooks and newspapers. This was life in Texas as our parents, grandparents and ancestors saw it.

A 1935 dust storm in Spearman as seen through a mass of telephone and electric wires. Elevator row can be seen in the background.

In the 1920s an unknown photographer captured this very clear photo of Model Ts parked in front of elevators on Elevator Row in Spearman Texas

In 1942 an attractive woman leans against an old pickup in front of the Lyric Theater and Hale Pharmacy

Vintage cars parked in front of the Hansford County Courthouse on September 1951

A group of people were caught in the open on both sides of a dry gulch outside Perryton Texas  in 1935

Orville Fullbright and John Pipkin at a gas station in Spearman Texas in 1940s

Resources:

West Texas History & Memories

Early Life in Texas County by County

Books about Texas People and Places

Amazing People from Texas County by County