XIT Museum Exhibits - Ranch Exhibit

Surveyed in 1879 and 1880, the Capital Reservation ran from the northwest corner of Texas south along the Texas-New Mexico border for about 200 miles.

Located on the Great Plains, the reservation varied in width from twenty-five to thirty miles, much of which was flat and treeless and semi-arid. Only one river, the Canadian, flowed through the area, but many people regarded it as some of the finest grazing land in Texas.