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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Recognition and thanks are due to the many individuals and institutions whose cooperation
made possible the completion of this project. In Austin, the staffs of The Center for American
History and Perry-Castaneda Library at The University of Texas at Austin, Texas State Library and
Archives, and Secretary of State's office provided guidance to secondary sources, censuses, legislative
records, and corporation files. In Lubbock, the staff of The Southwest Collection at Texas Tech
University made important collections available and guided the author through the intricacies of
the voluminous records of the Fort Worth & Denver City Railway. The staff of the State Historical
Society of Iowa promptly responded long-distance to requests for documents in the Grenville M.
Dodge Collection.
Local assistance in Haskell, Texas, was outstanding. Mr. Leon Jones of the Haskell
Cooperative Gin spent several hours patiently answering questions about the history of the
cooperative. He also guided the historian through the gin, carefully explaining the processes in
language that was understandable, even to a novice. The personnel at the Haskell County Appraisal
District and Assessor's and County Clerk's offices were patient to a fault, providing access to early
tax records and helping the historian locate some of the less-commonly used record sets in the
basement of the clerk's office. Employees of the City of Haskell shared their carefully preserved
copies of early city council minutes.
The historian also owes a debt of gratitude to the staff of Prewitt and Associates, Inc.: to Mr.
Ross C. Fields and Ms. Audra L. Pineda for their critical reading of the manuscript, to Ms. Pineda
for producing the report, to Ms. Karen M. Gardner for her production of statistical tables, and to
Ms. Sandra L. Hannum for her inspired reinterpretation of those statistics into graphs, tables, and
figures. Finally, thanks are due to Mr. Bruce Jensen at the Environmental Affairs Division of the
Texas Department of Transportation and Mr. Bob Brinkman at the History Programs Division of
the Texas Historical Commission for their guidance throughout the project and their helpful
suggestions that brought focus and clarity to the research effort.vii
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Freeman, Martha Doty. Agricultural Landscape Development Along US 277, book, May 2003; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1222742/m1/8/?q=%222008~%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.