Will and Florence Harrington built their ranch house 90 miles south of a tent city called Amarillo. Will got the board-and-batten walls up before the first blizzard of 1888 struck. The Harrington’s nearest neighbors were line riders from a place called Sod Camp on the sprawling XIT Ranch. Women and children were few in the open range country of the Texas Panhandle. Florence and the two little Harr…
