The Matador Cattle Company began as an open range ranch in 1879 when Henry H. Campbell, A. M. Britton, and three others bought range rights in this area. In 1882, Scottish investors purchased the ranch and formed the Matador Land & Cattle Company, Ltd. The ranch utilized one and one half million acres of owned and leased range in Motley, Floyd, Dickens, and Cottle counties, and in 1902 it acquired the 210,000 acre Alamocitas Ranch in Oldham County. Additional pastures were leased in the Dakotas, Montana, and Canada. At its height, the ranch owned 90,000 cattle and title to 879,000 acres of Texas land. In 1913, the Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railroad was built through the ranch in Motley County and the town of Roaring Springs was established. General managers were Britton from 1879 to 1890, Murdo MacKenzie from 1890 to 1911 and again from 1923 to 1937, John MacBain from 1912 to 1922, and John MacKenzie from 1937 to 1951. The general manager's office was first located in Fort Worth and later in Trinidad and Denver, Colorado. Corporate offices were maintained in Scotland from 1882 until the ranch's liquidation in 1951, after which the ranch headquarters was purchased by Koch Industries, Inc. and became The Matador Cattle Company.