Photograph of cowboys having dinner on the J.L.Pennington Ranch on the panhandle plains of Texas. The man third from the left is T.H. Pennington.

Photograph of several men, women, and children standing in front of the Lone Star School. There are two horse drawn carriages visible in the photograph. Typed on the back of the photograph is, "The Lone Star school, located midway between the towns of Claude and Panhandle, is reputed to have been the first established on the 'high plains' of Texas. This picture was made in 1894. Miss Cappie Potts was teacher. (Star-Telegram Feature story on this school published Sunday, April 5, 1936)."

Cowboys changing horses at noon in the corral at the Pennington Ranch near Claude, Texas in 1900.

Photograph of the Goodnight Ranch Home in Goodnight, Texas.

Photograph of faculty (far left) and students posing, standing and sitting in several rows, in front of the Washburn School, a two-story brick building, on the last day of classes; the boys are wearing dark suits and ties and the girls are wearing light-colored dresses and many have bows in their hair.

Photograph of a large group of unidentified children dressed as Native Americans with feather headpieces posing, sitting and standing, in front of a teepee made out of sheets and blankets with other sheets hanging on a clothesline in the background.

Photograph taken from across a plain of a herd of Charles Goodnight's buffalo grazing with a mesa and several hills in the background.

Photograph of an unidentified young woman dressed as a Native American with a feather headpiece and braids standing in front of a tree with a wooden fence visible in the background.

Photograph of two unidentified young women dressed as Native Americans with feather headpieces and braids posing in front of a bush with a wooden fence and trees in the background.

Photograph of five unidentified people (three women and two men) standing atop a concrete tunnel through an embankment on the road to Goodnight, Texas.

Photograph of five unidentified people dressed as Native Americans in Washburn, Texas; the man on the left and the three young women are wearing dark colored clothes and feather headpieces and the boy on the right is holding a stick and a dark-colored hat.

Photograph of the town of Washburn on the horizon taken from across an empty field.

Photograph of the town of Washburn, Texas on the horizon from across an empty field.

Photograph of five unidentified school children (three boys and two girls) standing in front of a brick building holding hands and raising their hands in the air.

Photograph of a Fourth of July celebration at Washburn, Texas, a town consisting of a 2-story brick school house and several smaller homes, with many horse-drawn carriages and people in the foreground, and more people, horses, and plains in the background.

Photograph of a Fourth of July celebration at Washburn, Texas featuring a large group of women and men standing around a long table in the foreground, with several horse-drawn carriages and automobiles on the right, and two small homes visible in the background on an empty plain.

Photograph of a wheat harvest crew by a thresher and pile of wheat in Washburn, Texas; on the left a young woman and two men are standing on top of the machine, five men are standing in front of it in the center, and on the right two men are standing on the pile of straw holding pitchforks.

Photograph of six unidentified cowhands branding a cow in a corral; the cow is held in a chute with its head sticking out in the front while one man appears to be sawing off part of its horn, another man is holding a reign, and two men are standing behind it, one holding a branding iron with smoke visible. The two other men are sitting and standing on the side watching and there is a windmill and a tree in the background.

Photograph of an unidentified woman standing in front of students seated at several rows of desks in the Washburn School; there is a drawing on the blackboard behind her and several pictures hanging on both walls.

Photograph of two unidentified men and a girl dressed as Native Americans sitting with their legs crossed in front of a teepee made out of sheets and blankets with other sheets hanging on a clothesline in the background.

Photograph of Winn's home near Washburn, Texas, a two-story brick house with a small porch, with a silo and windmill behind the house on the left, an automobile on the right, several shrubs and trees in the foreground, and and empty plains and telephone poles in the background.

Photograph of an unidentified woman and boy dressed as Native Americans with feather headdresses posing in front of a teepee made out of sheets and blankets with other sheets hanging on a clothesline in the background.

Photograph of three unidentified young people dressed as Native Americans with feather headpieces posing in front of a teepee made out of sheets with other sheets hanging on a clothesline in the background; The boy on the left is sitting with his legs crossed, the young woman is sitting in a chair in the middle, and the young man is standing next to her on the right.

Photograph of two unidentified young women dressed as Native Americans with feather headpieces and braids standing in front of a tree with a wooden fence and more trees in the background.