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Ghost Towns of Texas
Häftad, 1991
260 kr
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The indefatigable T. Lindsay Baker has now turned his enormous mental and physical energies to the subject and has brought to view - if not to life -eighty-six Texas ghost towns for the reader's pleasure. Baker lists three criteria for inclusion: tangible remains, public access, and statewide …
WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives
Av T. Lindsay Baker, Julie P. Baker m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
380 kr
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These are fascinating stories of the memories of ex-slaves, fourteen of which have never been published before. Although many African Americans had relocated in Oklahoma after emancipation in1865, some of the interviewees had been slaves of Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, or Creeks in the Indian …
More Ghost Towns of Texas
Häftad, 2005
266 kr
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There is something romantic yet harshly concrete about an abandoned town. Dreams, conflicts, and losses still haunt what remains, so it's no wonder we call these locales ""ghost towns."" A companion volume to his Ghost Towns of Texas, T. Lindsay Baker's More Ghost Towns of Texas provides readers …
Portrait of Route 66
Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives
Inbunden, 2016
409 kr
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By the time Route 66 received its official numerical designation in 1926, picture postcards had become popular travel souvenirs. At the time, these postcards with colorful images served as advertisements for roadside businesses.While cherished by collectors, these postcard depictions do not always …
Eating Up Route 66
Foodways on America's Mother Road
Inbunden, 2022
398 kr
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From its designation in 1926 to the rise of the interstates nearly sixty years later, Route 66 was, in John Steinbeck’s words, America’s Mother Road, carrying countless travelers the 2,400 miles between Chicago and Los Angeles. Whoever they were—adventurous motorists or Dustbowl migrants, troops on …
Birth of a Texas Ghost Town Volume 22
Thurber, 1886–1933
Av Mary Jane Gentry, T. Lindsay Baker
Häftad, 2023
341 kr
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The Birth of a Texas Ghost Town: Thurber 1886–1933 provides readers with a detailed history of the rise and fall of one of the most notable coal-mining and brick-producing communities in Texas. . . . Any historian interested in Texas history, urban studies, and business history would find this book …
Guide to the Historic Architecture of Glen Rose, Texas Volume 30
Bypassed, Forgotten, and Preserved
Av T. Lindsay Baker, Paul V. Chaplo
Inbunden, 2022
431 kr
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Located just west of the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex, the community of Glen Rose, on the banks of the spring-fed Paluxy River, has attracted people for a century and a half, not only for the shaded quiet of its streets and its historic structures, but also because of the fossilized dinosaur tracks …
Field Guide to American Windmills
Inbunden, 1985
1067 kr
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Before the development of the first self-governing windmill, settlement of the upland areas of the American West was almost impossible. Windmills were needed to pump underground water to the surface. As soon as their design and manufacture had been perfected, the mills became the most prominent …
More Ghost Towns of Texas
Inbunden, 2003
409 kr
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There is something romantic yet harshly concrete about an abandoned town. Dreams, conflicts, and losses still haunt what remains, so it's no wonder we call these locales ""ghost towns."" A companion volume to his Ghost Towns of Texas, T. Lindsay Baker's More Ghost Towns of Texas provides readers …
American Windmills
An Album of Historic Photographs
Häftad, 2012
328 kr
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From the earliest days of European settlement, Americans have cherished the sight of a windmill - an instantly recognizable feature of the American landscape. Boasting nearly two hundred striking images, this book is the first devoted to photographs illustrating historic wind machines throughout …
Texas Red River Country
Av Baker- T.L, T. Lindsay Baker
Inbunden, 1998
352 kr
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In May, 1876, a party of army engineers, teamsters, and a civilian draftsman with a military escort departed from Fort Elliott in the Texas Panhandle to conduct a topographic and scientific survey and to explore the headwaters of the Red River. Their reports of the land, water resources, insects, …
Gangster Tour of Texas
Häftad, 2011
328 kr
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Bonnie and Clyde, Machine Gun Kelly, the Newton Boys, the Santa Claus Bank Robbers. . . . During the era of gangsters and organized crime, Texas hosted its fair share of guns and gambling, moonshine and morphine, ransom and robbery. The state's crime wave hit such a level that in 1927 the Texas …
