In Dalhart, the stench of cattle has become the sweet fragrance of Ode a l'manure. ... Dalhart became a town in 1901, when the railroad arrived. Before that, it was part of the XIT Ranch, once the largest fenced range in the world.

What is Dalhart TX famous for?

In 1990 Dalhart remained an agribusiness center for a wide area of Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. In addition to cattle feedlots, a bottling plant, and feed and meat processing plants, Dalhart is noted for its schools, hospital, and nursing home.

Why does the Texas Panhandle smell so bad?

Cattle are big business in the Texas panhandle. When the wind blows from the southwest, you catch the unmistakable smell of the feedlots, where hundreds of thousands of cows spend their last days filling lagoons with manure.