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    Historic Places as the Shafter Historic Mining District. Tucked in the Chinati Mountains on Cibolo Creek, 18 miles north of Presidio, Shafter was once a bustling...
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    Hawaii, is named for him, as well as the city of Shafter, California and the ghost town of Shafter, Texas. He was nicknamed "Pecos Bill", inspiration for...
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    Porvenir Shafter Texas portal List of museums in West Texas National Register of Historic Places listings in Presidio County, Texas Recorded Texas Historic...
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    after the army officer who had discovered the lake in 1875, William R. Shafter. Shafter Lake was platted in August 1907 and by early September had become a...
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  • Spanish–American War United States Shafter, California, in Kern County Shafter, Illinois Shafter, Missouri Shafter, Texas Fort Shafter, Hawaii This disambiguation...
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    Cibolo Creek Ranch (category Ranches in Texas)
    is situated in the Chinati Mountains of the Chihuahuan Desert, near Shafter, Texas, approximately 15 miles (24 km) east of the Mexico–United States border...
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    morning of February 13, 2016, in his room at Cibolo Creek Ranch, near Shafter, Texas. He had gone quail hunting the afternoon before, and then dined as the...
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    from West Point, served in Shafter, Texas, near the end of the 19th century. (Shafter, named for General William R. Shafter, lies west of the Big Bend...
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  • The Andromeda Strain (film) (category Films shot in Texas)
    Wildfire. The filming in the fictional town of Piedmont took place in Shafter, Texas, while other filming was conducted at Ocotillo Wells, California. The...
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    John Hughes (lawman) (category Members of the Texas Ranger Division)
    Shafter, Texas, Hughes posed with fellow Rangers Bob Speaks, Alonzo "Lon" Oden, and Jim Putnam in what became one of the most widely circulated Texas...
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