Farwell is a city in and the county seat of Parmer County, Texas, United States. Its population was 1,363 at the 2010 census. The city is located on the Texas-New Mexico attach with the city of Texico, New Mexico, across the border.

Farwell began as a cow camp for the XIT Ranch, a huge ranch that was customary in 1880. Farwell was named for brothers Charles B. and John V. Farwell of Lake Forest, Illinois, who built the Texas State Capitol building in squabble for 3,050,000 acres of ranchland. That region of Texas had been controlled by the Comanche from more or less 1725, when they defeated the Apache and forced them to migrate to the Rockies in New Mexico and to other regions. The Red River War of 1874–1875—the biggest military operation the U.S. had with the Civil War and World War One—had five armies converge upon that portion of the High Plains, ultimately defeating the main Comanche force in Palo Duro Canyon (80 mi northeast of Farwell) by driving off and slaughtering the Comanches’ horses.

The Farwell brothers established the XIT upon their supplementary land, ultimately employing 800 cowboys, stringing on culmination of 6,000 miles of critical wire, and hiring former Texas Rangers to thrash the hundreds of cattle rustlers operational across the divulge line in the New Mexico territory. Many researchers withhold that the XIT ultimately bungled because of that huge rustling operation, ultimately persuading stockholders to start selling off the ranch to families who came to that ration of the High Plains drawn by the cheap price of land. When the cow-camp that would become Farwell was received is not documented, but considering Parmer County was created in 1907 (previously ration of Deaf Smith County to its north), the election was held for county seat in a contest in the midst of Farwell, Bovina, Parmerton, and Friona, all to Farwell’s northeast, all which had started as cow camps, but had varying talent thus far-off in attracting settlers who ran saloons, stores, stables, and additional services for the cowboys. Parmerton was initially voted county seat that year, and a one-story courthouse was built there.

The election was hotly contested by politicians in the additional towns, so a new vote was scheduled. Cowboys, who were the largest demographic, lived in their saddles and sleeping bags most of the time, with no definite address. A extra regulation was acknowledged that each man would vote in the place where he did his laundry. Farwell, possessing the isolated laundry at that time, thus received all the cowboy votes, though Friona was, and remains, about four get older the size of Farwell, so Farwell became county seat in the 1908 vote. The Farwell courthouse was erected speedily thereafter. When the decision was made to start selling off the XIT to settlers, they would arrive in Farwell on the railroad, which had reached there in 1899, linking rail to the east next rail to the west of the Rockies Mountains via the track laid between Farwell (and her sister city on the supplementary side of the give leave to enter line, Texico, New Mexico, also approximately 1,300 people today) to Belen, New Mexico. Farwell lies at the junction of two branches of the Santa Fe Railway; one branch goes northeast toward Amarillo and the supplementary southeast toward Lubbock. Families from across America arrived by train, stayed in the four-story Farwell Hotel, and toured the genial homestead sites by touring cars.