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If you're looking for the city of Sherman, it's in Grayson County!

Sherman County is in the High Plains region of the northern Panhandle on the Oklahoma border. The county's center lies at approximately 36.28 north latitude and -101.89 west longitude. The county, named for Sidney Sherman, a veteran of the Texas Revolution, was created by the Texas legislature in 1876 and the county government was organized in 1889. Stratford, the county seat, is in the northwestern part of the county eighty miles north of Amarillo at 36.33, -102.07.
Adapted from: Sherman County, The Handbook of Texas Online.

Sherman County, Texas, Farmland in Spring
Sherman County Farmland in Early Springtime.

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McDaniel, Marylou, ed. God, Grass & Grit: History of the Sherman Trade Area, Vols. I-III. Hereford, Texas: Pioneer Book Publishers, Inc. (1971, 1976).

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Tascosa Pioneer, 1886-1891
Sherman County Banner, 1893-bef. 1901
Amarillo Globe-News