Deep Time & the TX High Plains - Carlson

p.96 1878 - Last bison herds on South Plains
p.97 1884 - "Across Yellowhouse canyon, including present day Lubbock, the Western Land and Livestock Company in 1884 established its IOA Fanch. The northern boundary of the ranch extended from Crosby County westward to Hockly County along present 19th Street in Lubbock."
"...grazed some twenty thousand cattle in 1885."
p.98 1883 - Singer's mercantile established in Yellowhouse Canyon.
p.101 May 1935 - excavation began on "unplugging" the springs at Lubbock Lake as part of the WPA.