I remember Texas Tech has a Ranching Heritage Museum, that I visited as a boy. In the museum was a pretty nice windmill (possibly from the Four 6's). The guides told us the ranch donated it to the museum, because one of the grand old ladies of the ranch insisted on climbing the windmill every day to oil the gears, and her family was afraid she'd fall off it someday
IIRC the Four 6's got its name, because it was won in a card game?
All of that Texas ranching country was settled by some optimistic, hardworking people. Most of the land really isn't easy to work or ranch. They left interesting stories behind them. The ones that were lucky & hardworking enough to hold land long enough for the oil booms to hit then acquired a lot of money, and eventually influence.
