By Dale Lasater<\/p>\n
Like many pioneer western cattlemen, Ed C. Lasater was confident, optimistic, and an aggressive user of bank credit. This history of the South Texas rancher and dairyman paints a vivid picture of frontier agriculture in an era that featured some of the region and the nation\u2019s most progressive and most trying times.<\/p>\n
Lasater, born near Goliad in 1860, purchased extensive landholdings in South Texas in the late nineteenth century. In 1904 he founded the town of\u00a0Falfurrias<\/em>. The author, a grandson of Ed C. Lasater, describes the settlers\u2019 arrival near the Loma Blanca, the area\u2019s principal landmark, and the pioneering efforts of the families who moved to the developing region.<\/p>\n Falfurrias<\/em>\u00a0describes not only the development of Lasater\u2019s agricultural interests, which included the world\u2019s largest herd of Jersey milk cows and a creamery whose brand-name butter is still sold in the region today. Lasater was also active in politics, combating the early signs of \u201cbossism\u201d in South Texas counties. He ran for governor on the Progressive ticket in 1912, and served as an appointee in the U.S. Food Administration in 1917.<\/p>\n Falfurrias<\/em>\u00a0describes not only the development of Lasater\u2019s agricultural interests, which included the world\u2019s largest herd of Jersey milk cows and a creamery whose brand-name butter is still sold in the region today. Lasater was also active in politics, combating the early signs of \u201cbossism\u201d in South Texas counties. He ran for governor on the Progressive ticket in 1912, and served as an appointee in the U.S. Food Administration in 1917.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[33],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"\n