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Frank Norfleet, rancher and self-appointed detective was born on February 23, , in Lampasas County Texas, the son of a rancher and Texas Ranger. Growing up, Frank spent part of his youth on his father's free range ranch north of San Angelo.

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In , when he was 14, he joined a buffalo hunt to the Llano Estacado. For a while after that he worked as a cowboy and drover for various outfits. In Dudley H. Snyder hired him to help drive 5, cattle from Central Texas to the High Plains in the vicinity of present Muleshoe. Impressed with his work, the Snyders cut out fourteen horses for him and he was left alone with the cattle on June 22, Norfleet remained under the Snyders' employ until , when Isaac L.

Ellwood hired him as foreman of the newly acquired Spade Ranch in Lamb and Hockley counties. During his time on the Spade he built the main headquarters and supervised the fencing. They were married on June 23, and became the first couple to live on the Spade Ranch. Norfleet remained with the Spade until , when he started his own ranching operation on a 2,acre tract in western Hale County.

He settled his family in a homestead on Catfish Draw near the site of future Cotton Center where he developed the famous "Five Dollar Strain" of race horses from a scraggly pony he had bought for that amount. Norfleet's journey to becoming a legendary detective began when he was on a business trip to Fort Worth in He intended to sell one of his farms in order to buy ten thousand acres of ranchland from Edgar Dick Slaughter.

Wared, W. Determined not to let the crooks get away, 55 year old Norfleet began a solo manhunt which eventually took him throughout most of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, often donning a disguise to make contacts.