Texas Wind Icons

McCamey, Texas

Wind turbines have been adopted along with cowboys, cows, and oil as symbols of the West Texas town of McCamey--The self-styled Wind Capital of Texas.


Texas High Plains Highway Sign

There were at some 60,000 water-pumping windmills operating in the Texas Panhandle (the High Plains) in the 1970s.


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