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2 unusual facts about Oldham County


Jack Boyd Buckley

Buckley was also a philanthropist who gave generously to Cal Farley Boys Ranch near Tascosa in Oldham County in the Texas Panhandle northwest of Amarillo as well as his church, the Ascension Episcopal Church, Rice University, and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, all in Houston.

Oldham County, Texas

The next approximately 12 miles slope down to the Canadian River.


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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