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unusual facts about Boys Ranch



Cal Farley

In 1934, he started the Maverick Club, an athletic club for boys, and in 1939 founded the residential childcare facility known as Boys Ranch, located near Old Tascosa, a largely otherwise abandoned community in Oldham County north of Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle.


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Bill Sarpalius

In 1961, when he was thirteen, he and his brothers were placed at Cal Farley's Boys Ranch near Amarillo.

Boys Ranch High School

Boys Ranch High School is public high school located in the Texas Panhandle, 36 miles northwest of Amarillo, Texas and classified as a 1A school by the UIL.

Cal Farley

In 1944, Farley launched the annual Boys Ranch and Girlstown rodeo held over the Labor Day weekend.

Canyon State Academy

On March 2, 1998, Nicholaus Contreraz died at the Boys Ranch due to abusive conditions.

Davone Bess

Bess lost his scholarship to Oregon State when he was sentenced to about 21 months in Byron boys ranch juvenile facility after allowing a friend to put stolen items in his car.

Roy Barcroft

Between 1955 and 1957, he became familiar to a new generation of youthful audiences, not as a villain but as "Col. Jim Logan", the kindly owner of the Triple-R Boys' Ranch in the hit television serials Spin and Marty, seen on Walt Disney's celebrated Mickey Mouse Club.