We recommend the Facebook Group "West Texas History & Memories" for history, famous people, old photos, stories, unclaimed estates and genealogy of the Western Half of Texas . . . Check it out and join the conversation

Pecos County, Texas from 1850 to 1950 as pictured in archived government photographs, vintage postcards, old school yearbooks and newspapers. This was life in Texas as our parents, grandparents and ancestors saw it.

In 1924 Roland Warnock, Frank Warnock and Knox Duckworth posed for this wonderful old photo at the Warnock family home place near Fort Stockton in Pecos County Texas. Frank Warnock was a cowboy and pioneer road builder. Frank Warnock had a long career in science education.

Great old photo of the Texas National Bank in Fort Stockton in 1920

In 1929 sixteen men three women and a little boy posed by a covered wagon powered by two donkeys at Comanche Springs in Fort Stockton

One man and four women on horseback and two men stand on foot behind a woman who sits on the ground in front of them in Fort Stockton in the 1800s

Sometime in the 1800s a stagecoach ran off the trail and nearly toppled over near Fort Stockton

In the 1920s a commercial bus loaded with passengers crosses a rickety bridge in Fort Stockton as a man stands outside to guide guide the driver

Five men at the KCM&0 railroad station in Ft Stockton in 1911 in Pecos County Texas

Gateway Lodge in Fort Stockton in 1940s
 

Resources:

West Texas History & Memories

Early Life in Texas County by County

Books about Texas People and Places

Amazing People from Texas County by County