Bootleg, Texas

Grain Elevator near Bootleg

(TSHA) Bootleg (Bootleg Corner) is in southwestern Deaf Smith County. 

There are two stories about the origin of its name. One associates the name with Moonshine Sheep Camp, where a moonshine still was once located; the campground was for cowboys and others traveling from La Plata to Endee, New Mexico. 

Another story has it that the community was named for a "bootleg school"–a small school building that was moved to various locations by agents selling land for the Capitol Syndicate so that prospective customers would believe there was a school near the land they were buying. Continued