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Pampa
White Deer Land Museum
Anne Davidson
Deborah Chambers
出版
Arcadia Publishing
, 2010-04-19
主題
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional
Travel / Pictorials
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Historical
History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
ISBN
1439641277
9781439641279
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7whpdw6sJTAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The Panhandles first railroad, the Southern Kansas Railway of Texas, was constructed in 1886. Reaching Amarillo in 1889, the railway pulled cars filled with immigrant families and their belongings. The settlers were farmers from the east and south who came west to find water and cheap land. George Tyng, an adventurous fortune seeker, began leasing ranch land in 1887. A rail station was constructed, and Tyng eventually settled on the name Pampa, a South American word that means plains. Tyng was fond of saying that someday Pampa would be the Queen City of the Plains.