The Texas Land and Development Company: A Panhandle Promotion, 1912-1956Agricultural and urban development came late to the Texas South Plains, and frontier life lingered well into the twentieth century. In the decade preceding World War I numerous land companies flourished in the area and acted as catalysts for settlement and economic expansion. Prominent among these companies was the Plainview based Texas Land and Development Company, founded in 1912 as an operating agent for a syndicate of eastern financiers. Like most