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Julian Bivins Museum (Oldham County Courthouse)

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1884. TX 233, Boys Ranch

Built of local sandstone, the two-story, end-gabled structure has a central hall with one room each side. The front porch is a later addition. The courthouse served twelve counties. After the county seat relocated in 1915, the Julian Bivins Ranch added the townsite to its ranchland holdings and used the building as a headquarters and bunkhouse. The museum houses artifacts of indigenous and cowboy cultures and includes the history of Boys Ranch. Boot Hill Cemetery, named after Dodge City’s infamous Boot Hill, accommodating those who “died with their boots on” as well as law-abiding citizens, is located immediately south of the highway entrance to the Ranch.

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Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Gerald Moorhead et al., "Julian Bivins Museum (Oldham County Courthouse)", [Boys Ranch, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-TP1.

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Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 349-349.

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