[1] The 200,000-acre (810 km2) Rocking Chair Ranche was bought by Dudley Majoribanks, The 1st Baron Tweedmouth in 1883.
They sold it to the Continental Land and Cattle Company in December 1896.
[1] Dudley gave his youngest son Archibald an annual living allowance of £400 and sent him to Texas to work as the assistant ranch manager and bookkeeper.
[2] When Archibald's sister and brother-in-law, Lord and Lady Aberdeen, visited Archibald in the summer of 1887 they found him living in the one-bedroom wood frame house he shared with the ranch manager, J. John Drew.
Archibald suggested renaming the closest township to the ranch after them.