Mobeetie, TX: A THUNDERSTORM approaches above State Highway 152.

Mobeetie: THE STONE JAIL at the original town site, now a museum, was once the home of Texas Ranger Captain George W. Arrington, who was elected county sheriff in 1882.

Mobeetie: HISTORICAL BUILDINGS in Old Mobeetie, now a well-maintained park. A parking lot hosts a part-time population of RVs in the warmer months.

Mobeetie: OLD MOBEETIE, the original townsite, began to decline when the post office and most of the town's businesses moved two miles north in 1929 to meet the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway.

Mobeetie: DOWNTOWN BUSINESSES. Considered the "mother city" of the Texas panhandle, Mobeetie was the commercial center of much of the panhandle throughout the 1880s.