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'''James O'Neill Humphreys, Sr.''', usually known as '''Jim Humphreys''' (February 28, 1921 – June 9, 2007), was a prominent [[Texas]] rancher and the former board chairman of the National Ranching Heritage Center, an entity of [[Texas Tech University]] in [[Lubbock]]. For some two decades, he managed the large [[Pitchfork Ranch]], with headquarters near thinly populated Guthrie in King County located on the South Plains east of Lubbock. According to ''Historic Ranches of Texas,'' Humphreys thereafter became "one of the major figures in Texas [[agriculture]] before his retirement from active management in 1986."<ref name= books>http://books.google.com/books?id=BVYLrXGCJYIC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=Southwestern+Exposition+and+Livestock+Show+%2B+James+Humphreys&source=web&ots=W9QHOu4MdX&sig=-J36g-eryERCn8ecSQJp8ZcWopk&hl=en|title=''Historic Ranches of Texas|author=Lawrence Clayton|publisher=Google Books|accessdate=November 19, 2019}}</ref>
'''James O'Neill Humphreys, Sr.''', usually known as '''Jim Humphreys''' (February 28, 1921 – June 9, 2007), was a prominent [[Texas]] rancher and the former board chairman of the National Ranching Heritage Center, an entity of [[Texas Tech University]] in [[Lubbock]]. For some two decades, he managed the large [[Pitchfork Ranch]], with headquarters near thinly populated Guthrie in King County located on the South Plains east of Lubbock. According to ''Historic Ranches of Texas,'' Humphreys thereafter became "one of the major figures in Texas [[agriculture]] before his retirement from active management in 1986."<ref name=books>{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BVYLrXGCJYIC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=Southwestern+Exposition+and+Livestock+Show+%2B+James+Humphreys&source=web&ots=W9QHOu4MdX&sig=-J36g-eryERCn8ecSQJp8ZcWopk&hl=en|title=Historic Ranches of Texas|author=Lawrence Clayton|publisher=Google Books|accessdate=November 19, 2019}}</ref>
==Background==
==Background==