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C.W. Post: Cereal Czar and Rainmaker

1911-1914

The cereal manufacturer, C. W. Post of Texas, maintained belief in the concussion method. From 1911 to 1914, Post executed “rain battles” near Post City, Texas, detonating dynamite along the Caprock Escarpment. Inspired by an occasional rain fall, Post optimistically predicted that rainmaking would one day replace irrigation. [1]

References

1.1. Whitten, April L. "Rainmaking." Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, 2012
http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.wat.023

2.2. Deeringer, Martha. "C.W. Post: Cereal Czar and Rainmaker." Texas Co-op Power, 2011
https://www.texascooppower.com/texas-stories/history/cw-post-cereal-czar-and-rainmaker

3.3. "Charles William Post, half-length portrait, facing slightly right" Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98510402/

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