First county in Texas Panhandle organized

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(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1879, Wheeler County became the first organized county in the Texas Panhandle.
The Kiowas and Comanches, who displaced the earlier Apache peoples around 1700, dominated the area until the mid-1870s. By that time buffalo hunters had already established a settlement, called Hidetown or Sweetwater, in the area. Continued