HISTORY
W.K. Johnson, Sr , started the Muleshoe brand when he bought the Blackwater division of the XIT Ranch on the Blackwater draw about 1900. The Santa Fe Railroad built a road from Lubbock to Clovis, NM which ran through the middle of the ranch known as the Muleshoe Ranch. By that time Mr. Johnson had sold the ranch to E.K. Warren and son from Three Oaks, Michigan. Warren gave one section for a town-site when the railroad was built. This town was named Muleshoe and still goes by that name. When Mr. Johnson sold the ranch, he maintained the Muleshoe brand. Around 1908, Mr. Johnson and Mr. R.M. Clayton formed a partnership, the Clayton and Johnson Company. They bought a ranch in Borden County in 1913 and continued to use the Muleshoe brand. What is now the Muleshoe Ranch was originally open grazing and used by the Magnola Land and Cattle Co. prior to 1894. In 1945 Mr. Jerry Clayton, one of R.M. Clayton’s sons , bought the Muleshoe Ranch from another son A.M. Clayton. In 1957, Jerry Clayton sold the ranch to his daughters, Jere Hubbard of Midland, and Barbara Anderson of Borden County. In 1994, Rich and Barbara Anderson became the sole owners of the ranch. John Anderson , their son, and his wife, Kevva and their three children live on the place. They are the 4th and 5th generation to on and operate the ranch. John and the kids work the ranch as well as breed and train their own AQHA quarter horses. Kevva has her own custom art business when she isn’t helping on the ranch.
