Lynn County was created in 1876 from Bexar Territory and named for G. W. Lynn, called “one of those who baptized the altar of Texas with life blood at the Alamo.” Tahoka Lake and Double Lakes Springs were watering places on Indian, Spanish, U. S. Army, and cattle-driving trails. The area was homeland to nomadic Indians, was visited by Spaniards from the 1500s to the 1800s, was used by New Mexicans grazing large herds of sheep in the 1860s, and was the site of the last great buffalo hunts and the U. S. Cavalry’s drive against Comanches from 1874 to 1877. The last cowboy-Indian skirmish occurred at Double Lakes in 1879. The earliest open-range cattlemen settled here in the 1880s. The first schools, Lynn and T-Bar, opened in 1902. In April 1903 the county was organized with Tahoka as county seat, and its first officials were M. L. Elliott, county judge; S. N. McDaniel, county and district clerk; C. H. Doak, sheriff and tax assessor; O.L. Miller, treasurer; A.S. Coughrem, tax assessor; W. E. Porterfield, surveyor; and J. E. Ketner, H. E. Baldridge, B. Humphries, and W. T. Petty, commissioners. The Santa Fe Railroad reached this point in 1910, and the county later became a major agricultural area, ranking among the top ten cotton counties in Texas and one of the top twenty in the United States.