Records, 1907-1948, 1907-1923.

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Records, 1907-1948, 1907-1923.

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Includes correspondence, financial and legal material, maps, lists, and literary productions pertaining in extensive detail to the activities of the Double U Company and the settlement of Post, Texas. Collection bulks (1907-1923) with correspondence and financial material. Of particular interest are materials on Mr. Post's "rain battles," or weather modification attempts from 1910-1913, and materials concerning agricultural experiments and the development of pump irrigation.

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Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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Garza Land and Cattle Company (Garza County, Tex.)

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Algerita Hotel (Post, Tex.)

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Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company

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U.S. railroad, primarily in the Midwest and West; headquarters: Chicago, Ill. Name changed from Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway after bankruptcy reorganization in 1895. From the description of Santa Fé train robberies, 1890-1895. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 228418621 The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company (AT&SF) was founded by Cyrus K. Holiday in Kansas in 1859. By 1888 the railroad s...

Post, C. W. 1854-1914.

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Stevens, W. O.

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Double U Company.

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Land colonization company chartered in 1907 by breakfast food magnate Charles William Post (1854-1914) of Battle Creek, Michigan. From 1906-1907, Post purchased over 200,000 acres of land in Garza, Lynn, and Hockley Counties of Texas, which included the Curry Comb Ranch, the O. S. Ranch, the T. G. Oxsheer Ranch, and a portion of John B. Slaughter's U-Lazy-S Ranch. Originally named Post City, the town of Post, Garza County, Texas, began as a tent city in 1906, and by 1916, after an extensive real...

Postum Cereals Company.

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American Poland-China Record Association.

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Post, C.L.F.

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Hawk, H. C.

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Post City Brick and Tile Company (Post, Tex.)

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Slaughter, John Brooks, 1934-

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