urn:taro:ttu.sw.00113 W. P. Soash Land Company: An Inventory of Its Records, 1907-1918, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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August 2000 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, October 2000. Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 15:22:28 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00113 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for W. P. Soash Land Company Records, 1907-1918 Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, August 2000 Descriptive Summary W. P. Soash Land Company W. P. Soash Land Company Records, 1907-1918 The collection consists of three bound record books related to the W. P. Soash Land Company. S 943.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 3 ledgers (0.3 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

Founded by William Pulver Soash in 1905, the W.P. Soash Land Company sold land tracts in the Texas Panhandle, and the land developer and colonizer used excursion trains to promote lands which were available through his company. A company magazine entitled The Golden West was used to advertise and create an interest in the areas being opened. The magazine also included social, economic, and political discussions. In 1912, Soash was forced to close the land company due to three years of drought in the Texas Panhandle region.

The Handbook of Texas has published a more in-depth online biography of William Pulver Soash at http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/search.html

 Scope and Contents

The collection consists of three bound record books related to the W.P. Soash Land Company, of which two volumes are entitled Record of Land Sales, W.P. Soash Land Company,; while the other is marked as Note Register, W.P. Soash Land Company Waterloo, Iowa. These records contain notations concerning the purchase and sale of lands, buyers and sellers, costs, and location and size of lands. The material deals primarily with the land company, but records pertaining to the Florida Fertile Lands Company are also included.

 Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.

Subjects (Persons) Soash, W. P. (William Pulver), 1877-1961 Subjects (Organizations) W. P. Soash Land Company W. P. Soash Land Company--Records and correspondence Subjects Agriculture--Texas, West--History Depressions--1929 Land companies--Texas--History--Sources Land settlement--Texas--Littlefield--History--Sources Land settlement--Texas, West Ranches--Texas, West Ranching--Texas, West Real estate business--Texas, West Real estate development--Texas, West Acquisition

Gift, 1962

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Abel Ramirez, August 2000

 Preferred Citation

W. P. Soash Land Company Records, 1907-1918, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 Additional Sources Seymour V. Connor, ed. Builders of the Southwest. Lubbock: Southwest Collection, Texas Technological College, 1959.

For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, see the following collections:

Lee Cooper oral history interview [sound recording], 1970 Jimmy DeLoach oral history interview [sound recording], 1969 David B. Gracy Papers, 1966-1968 Owen McWhorter oral history interview [sound recording], 1976 R. L. Slaughter Papers, 1892-1969 Hanley Wasson oral history interview [sound recording], 1959 Collection Inventory Financial Materials Ledger #1 Note Register Book, 1907-1911 Ledger #2 Record of Land Sales, 1909 Ledger #3 Record of Land Sales, 1909-1918