Emanuel Dubbs

Before Mobeetie, Dubbs ran what travelers called the Buttermilk Ranch, a dairy farm and beer garden on Duck Creek about five miles from Dodge City, serving beer and milk punch, and he was said to have built Dodge's first house. In 1874 he helped build the Adobe Walls trading post. On Sweetwater Creek from 1878 he lived in a rock house with a dirt floor and sold meat and vegetables to Fort Elliott's troops. He became a Disciples of Christ minister in 1896, preached at Clarendon, and wrote of his hunting years in Pioneer Days in the Southwest.

What the plaque says

Emanuel Dubbs (1843 - 1929) First county judge in Texas Panhandle and in Wheeler County, Dubbs was born in Ohio. Came to know Texas as a buffalo hunter, and was in famous Indian Battle of Adobe Walls, 1874. Gained wide respect when, as judge, he had a lawless U.S. marshal arrested. He served 1879-1880; 1885-1890. (1968)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Mobeetie Jail Museum — 0.7 mi
  The 1886 stone jail of the Panhandle's first county seat, the buffalo hunters' Hidetown on Sweetwater Creek that ran the courts for fifteen counties before losing its fort, railroad hopes and county seat.
• Roberts County Museum — 17 mi
  The county museum in Miami's old Santa Fe depot, holding mammoth bones and Clovis points from a 1934 dig, in the cow town that has held a cow-calling contest since 1949.
• Devil's Rope and Old Route 66 Museum — 21 mi
  Barbed wire and the Texas road in McLean's old brassiere factory: the fence that closed the open range, from the salesmen who sold it to the Panhandle ranches it divided.
• Phillips 66 Station, McLean — 21 mi
  A 1929 cottage-style Phillips 66 station on First Street in McLean, the town I-40 went around last and whose Route 66 business district stayed much as it was.

More markers nearby

• Fort Elliott Flagpole — steps away
• Captain G. W. Arrington — steps away
• Frank Willis, Sr. — steps away
• Temple Lea Houston — steps away