Author: Frederic William SimondsPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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The Geography of Texas
Author: Frederic William SimondsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Geographic Reference Manual
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census. Geography DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Commercial Geography
Author: Albert Perry BrighamPublisher:
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Category : Commercial geography
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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The New Handbook of Texas
Author: Ronnie C. TylerPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
A reference guide to the history of Texas, including biographical sketches of notable individuals, histories of events, themes, counties, cities, and towns, and descriptions of physical features, with attention to the roles of women and minority groups.
Soil Survey of Smith County, Texas
Author: Don T. HatterlyPublisher:
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Category : Soil surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Texas Graveyards
Author: Terry G. JordanPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the Anglo-American, black, Indian, Mexican, and German settlers of Texas. His discoveries of sculptured stones and mounds, hex signs and epitaphs, intricate landscapes and unusual decorations represent a previously unstudied and unappreciated wealth of Texas folk art and tradition. Texas Graveyards not only marks the distinct ethnic and racial traditions in burial practices but also preserves a Texas legacy endangered by changing customs, rural depopulation, vandalism, and the erosion of time.
The Age of Steel
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Category : Iron industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Water-supply Paper
Author: Taming the Land
Author: John Miller MorrisPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603440372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A postcard craze gripped the nation from 1905 to 1920, as the rise of outdoor photography coincided with a wave of settlement and prosperity in Texas. Hundreds of people took up cameras, and photographers of note chose some of their best work for duplication as photo postcards—sold for a nickel and mailed for a penny to distant friends and relatives. These postcards, which now enjoy another kind of craze in the collecting world, left what author John Miller Morris calls a "significant visual legacy" of the history and social geography of Texas. For more than a decade, Morris has been finding and studying the photographers and methodically gathering their postcards. In Taming the Land, he shares those finds with readers, introducing each photographer and providing interpretive descriptions of the places, people, or events depicted in the photographs. The stories the cards tell—in the images captured and the messages carried—add an exceptional dimension to our understanding of life in rural Texas a century ago. Taming the Land presents postcards from twenty-four counties in the booming Texas Panhandle. This is the first book in a set called Plains of Light, which will collect and document turn-of-the-twentieth-century photo postcards from all over West Texas.
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