Ranchers formed the territory of Cimarron in 1887; it lasted until 1890 when it became this state's western panhandle
[DOC] [TLE] early days in carson county texas - Ranches.org [PAR] Early in the summer of 1887 a small group of settlers, headed by the late ... H. 
Nelson, came into the county and filed on state lands immediately around 
Panhandle .... West Texas, formerly designated on the map as the "Great 
American Desert", ....