XIT Rodeo & Reunion
05/11/2024
XIT Queen, Miss Sofia Latini, carried the American flag the Halloween Costume Saddle Bronc and Ba****ck Bronc Riding.
“When kids look up to someone, it’s not the fame or success they see—they see a path to something greater inside themselves.”
01/11/2024
Halloween fun with the Beecher kids, Carneseca kids and the Quiroz family! We always knew that Alex was just a big ole kid at heart! Lol.
We hope everyone had a great Halloween filled with candy and fun! 🎃 👻
31/10/2024
Happy Halloween-y BIRTHDAY to our Rodeo Director, Alex Quiroz! We hope your day is filled with fun and candy! But don't steal it from your kids - or do! It’s your day! 😂
24/10/2024
Tell us who you’re rooting for!
12/10/2024
It’s that time of year! Watch for all the finalist in each category.
The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association is excited to announce the finalists for the 2024 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo presented by Teton Ridge bullfighters, barrelman and pickup men
Read more here >>> https://bit.ly/3zV2omJ
10/10/2024
Good lunch for a good cause! Go see our friends at Twilight Cancer Fund today.
Please Share & Join Us!!
07/10/2024
Some behind the scenes from the 88th XIT Rodeo and Reunion. 😂
What’s going on here? Wrong answers only. 🤣. If you know, you know.
04/10/2024
The world needs more cowboys and cowgirls.
03/10/2024
We’re a day late but better later than never! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Nick Salas, our hospitality man!
01/10/2024
Our very own Laiken Brock has advanced to the top 8! Let’s all help out this talented young lady and vote!
https://www.nfrexperience.com/nfr-national-anthem-2024?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3O7Gy3QpgKmmn82TVmZsMXlLaw5uoOiKu-YgZxdIRa_VJyTkGimZn5eb0_aem_-rDgRcjodJwylDQQITHGdQ
After careful deliberation, we have the TOP 8 of the 2024 National Anthem Contest! We want to congratulate all of you that have entered and made it through each round. But it isn’t over yet… get ready for the next round of voting starting September 26th. 🙌🇺🇸
23/09/2024
Miss Sofia Latini, 2024 XIT Queen visiting the Amarillo Tri-State Fair.
Our reining 2024 XIT Queen, Sofia Latini, representing us well in Amarillo all weekend at the Amarillo Tri-State Fair and Rodeo!
21/09/2024
It's the weekend! It is time to have as much fun as Cody Sosebee in a pair of zebra leggings! 🦓🤣
20/09/2024
Miss Sofia Latini, our reining queen representing XIT Rodeo & Reunion beautifully at the Tri State Fair & Rodeo Parade in Amarillo.
Be looking for Sofia this weekend at the rodeo!
18/09/2024
"A true friend ain’t just there to pick you up after the fall; they’re the ones riding beside you, keeping you steady so you never hit the dirt."
16/09/2024
Dear September, please send those August rains. 🌦
14/09/2024
Thanks for the shoutout! We couldn’t do it without all our amazing volunteers and sponsors!
XIT Rodeo & Reunion does a phenomenal job every year bringing the XIT Rodeo to life with music and entertainment to our town of Dalhart, Texas! With a free watermelon feed, porkchop feed, and the WORLDS LARGEST FREE BBQ during XIT, they work hard to serve our community!
💙❤️
11/09/2024
A day of remembrance, September 11th, we take a moment to pause and reflect on the event that forever changed our nation. It is a time to honor the brave souls who made the ultimate sacrifice and to be grateful for the freedoms we cherish every day.
XIT Rodeo & Reunion
There was nothing in the history of the West quite like the XIT Ranch. In the 1880s, it was the largest ranch in the world under the fence, and it sprawled across the Texas Panhandle up from the old Yellow House headquarters near what is now Lubbock, northward to the Oklahoma Panhandle in a crazy strip that was toughly thirty miles wide. At one time, the ranch ran over 150,000 cattle.
The ranch was so large it covered portions of ten counties: Dallam, Hartley, Oldham, Deaf Smith, Parmer, Castro, Bailey, Lamb, Cochran, and Hockley. As a result, some believed the the brand ‘XIT’ stood for “Ten in Texas”. However the brand was designed to thwart rustlers by Ab Blocker, a South Texas trail driver, and B.H. (Barbeque) Campbell, first general manager of the ranch, who apparently once ordered a carload of brown cigarette papers. In any event, at the No. 1 division Buffalo Springs headquarters (32 miles north of Dalhart), the two men, according to the story, squatted on their boot heels were able to outsmart Blocker and Campbell, but they did learn to make ‘XIT’ into a Star Cross if the T was crossed crooked.
It was a ranch that had a history of superlatives. Besides being the largest ranch in the world under fence, Texas (then the biggest state) used it to pay for its red granite Capitol which is still the largest state Capitol on the North American continent today. Actually, the Texas Capitol at Austin is even bigger that the U.S. Capitol building. Its dome stands seven feet higher.
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