Tee Pee City

The Handbook of Texas dates the trading post to 1875, serving buffalo hunters and surveying parties at a site that had been a Comanche (Numunuu) campground. Charles Rath and Lee Reynolds brought an outfit from Dodge City, then moved on, leaving their hide dealers Armstrong and Sharp in charge. Isaac Armstrong ran its two-room picket hotel and saloon until his death in 1884 and was buried on a nearby sandhill. By 1878 the buffalo were gone, and the Rangers who watched the town were based at Camp Roberts in Blanco Canyon.

What the plaque says

Camp of early buffalo hunters. Only settlement west of Henrietta, north of Fort Griffin and south of Fort Elliott (now Mobeetie) 1875-1880. Headquarters of Texas Rangers under Captain G.W. Arrington at intervals, 1879-1881. Abandoned about 1886. First white child born in Motley county was Nora Cooper born here in 1882. S.N. Armstrong, pioneer merchant, buried near this site. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Motley County Historical Museum — 10 mi
  Matador's museum in the 1928 Traweek Hospital, in the county seat a Scottish-owned ranch created by having its cowboys open one-day businesses to pass a state rule.
• Matador Wildlife Management Area — 15 mi
  Twenty-eight thousand acres of mesquite, shinnery oak and juniper hills in the Rolling Plains north of Paducah, bought by the state in 1959 for wildlife research and open to permit holders.

More markers nearby

• Tee Pee City — steps away
• The Motley County Railroad — 9.9 mi
• Motley County — 11 mi
• Bob's Oil Well — 11 mi