page 20: "The ranch land was empty. No people. No bison. No roads. No farms. Just grass - three million acres of it."
According to the Handbook of Texas: "In 1882 the Capitol Syndicate marked off a large amount of Oldham County lands for use in its famous XIT Ranch. Only the southeastern part of the county fell outside the XIT after that time. Following a certain amount of property exchanging and dislocation within the local ranching industry, other ranches (the LX and the Frying Pan,qqv for instance) occupied Oldham County acreage." Seems like there would have been some trails or some stragglers from amongst these people and other earlier cowboys, but not sure.
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