Buddy Holly's Birthplace on the Llano Estacado — the flat, wind-swept West Texas plains city that produced one of rock and roll's founding artists, grows more wine grapes than any other Texas region, and has a Prairie Dog Town in the middle of Mackenzie Park
Lubbock is the eleventh-largest city in Texas — a city of 270,000 on the Llano Estacado (Staked Plains), a flat elevated plateau in West Texas at 3,200 feet elevation. Lubbock is globally known for one thing above all: it is the birthplace of Buddy Holly (1936–1959), whose 18-month creative burst of recordings — That'll Be the Day, Peggy Sue, Not Fade Away, Oh Boy, Everyday — established musical structures used in rock and roll ever since. The Buddy Holly Center (in the original Lubbock Depot) and the Buddy Holly statue on Walk of Fame are pilgrimage sites for music history enthusiasts. Texas…
Lubbock was founded in 1890 from the merger of two competing townsites on the Llano Estacado. The region was Comanche territory until the Red River War of 1874-75, when US Army Colonel Ranald Mackenzie defeated the Comanche at Palo Duro Canyon (80km east), ending their resistance and opening the Llano Estacado to ranching. Cotton farming, made possible by irrigation from the Ogallala Aquifer, became the economic base from the early 20th century. Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech) was established in Lubbock in 1923. Buddy Holly's death in a plane crash on February 3, 1959 ('The Day t…