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365 Days of Texas True Crime: Saddle Thieves Formed in 1887 and organized May 7 th, 1910, Upton County was named in honor of John Cunningham Upton, a distinguished Confederate officer who was killed at Manassas in 1962.  The county is made up of sheep raising and cattle with dotted oil wells throughout.  It was mainly a stock raising county.  The original county seat was Upland, which would now be considered a Texas Ghost Town.  It happens to be just about 10 miles north of Rankin so one of...