 The first white child in Motley County, Nora Cooper, was born in 1882 near what is the now ghost town of Tee Pee City, a camp operated by bison hunters and later the headquarters of the Texas Rangers under Captain G.W.Arrington from 1879 to 1881.In 1913, the eight-mile-long Motley County Railroad was chartered with money from more than 90 investors.