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Life in Winkler County Texas 1850 - 1950
Downtown Wink Texas in 1926
Downtown Wink Texas in 1926

In 1926 this huge photograph was produced for a promotional postcard touting Wink Texas as The Worlds Fastest Growing Oil Town and stated that six months earlier this was a pasture.

At its roaring peak, Wink boasted more money, more gamblers, and more honky-tonks than any other small town in the West. Robberies, gun-fights, and mur­ders were common. But as the workers’ wives came to Wink, the camp gradually became a town of more than 15,000. Some solid buildings went up along Hend­ricks Boulevard. Six churches were established. The Wink school district, with money pouring in from oil-company taxes, built a handsome school.

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Life in Winkler County 1850 - 1960

Life in Winkler County 1850 - 1960Life in Winkler County 1850 - 1960

Books about Winkler County

Books about Winkler CountyBooks about Kermit and Wink Texas

 

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Texas Estates with Unclaimed Assets Waiting to be 

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