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3 unusual facts about Cal Farley


Bill Sarpalius

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

Cal Farley

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

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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