The site of Canyon, also known as Canyon City, was settled in 1887 and the town surveyed in 1889, but it did not flourish until the Pecos and North Texas Railway arrived in 1898. The arrival of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1907 led to the founding of West Texas State Normal College (now West Texas A&M University; PH17) in 1910. In the early years of the twentieth century, Canyon claimed to have shipped more cattle than any other city in the world.
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