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Garza County was formed from Bexar County in 1876. It began to be
settled by ranchmen during the mid-1870s, when buffalo hunting had
nearly devastated the herds. Two of the earliest ranchers in the
county were Andy and Frank Long, who stocked the range south of the
Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos for their OS Ranch. |
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In 1879 W. C. Young and Ben Galbraith established the Llano Cattle
Co in the northwest part of Garza County. The ubiquitous West Texas
rancher John B. Slaughter used Garza County rangeland during the
1870s. In 1880 the census counted thirty-six residents in the
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The development of the county quickly accelerated after 1906, when
Charles William Post bought 250,000 acres in Lynn and Garza counties
to start an experimental colony. He bought a number of ranches,
fenced off the land in 160-acre tracts, laid out a townsite, built
houses, and in other ways worked to attract settlers. In 1907 Garza
County was formally organized, with the new town of Post City
designated as county seat. Land speculators and liquor were banned
in the settlement. That same year, Stockton Henry began publication
of the Post City Post |
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