Hutchinson County

Yeah, this is Jeff Smith, Schmitty, coming back to Sanford.

Coming back to Hutchinson County, 10 miles from where he led West Texas High to the state semifinals.

Dude, they've won three games.

I know.

Others, and these were not a few, would be able to wield official influence through which they would escape conviction, regardless of the evidence.

Soon after McDonald's appointment, he was notified of a marauding band that were committing the usual crimes across in Hutchinson County.

They had burned the hay belonging to a ranchman on Turkey Creek, several hundred tons in quantity.

They had cut his wire fences.

The son, supposed to be a cowboy, had become, in reality, an outlaw.

Captain McDonald took him in charge one day, questioned him, and secured sufficient evidence to file a complaint.

The prisoner was turned over to the sheriff of Hutchinson County, and Captain Bill pursued his investigation.

He located a bunch of stolen calves, herded in the breaks of the Canadian River, guarded by another member of the gang.

Buffalo hunters in their lonely camps on the Panhandle Plains were murdered and scalped.

Just east of the old Adobe Walls ruins on the north side of the Canadian River, in what is now northeastern Hutchinson County, 28 men and one woman fortified themselves in three new adobe buildings that had just been completed as a trading post in anticipation of the northern migration of the great buffalo herds.

They had awakened before daylight on the morning of June 27, 1874, by a sharp cracking noise.

The newly cut cottonwood ridge pole that supported the roof on one of the three buildings had settled and the sod-covered roof threatened to collapse at any moment.