Book Description
A companion volume to Ghost Towns of Texas provides readers with histories, maps, and detailed directions to the most interesting ghost towns in Texas not already covered in the first volume. Reprint.
Author : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806137247
A companion volume to Ghost Towns of Texas provides readers with histories, maps, and detailed directions to the most interesting ghost towns in Texas not already covered in the first volume. Reprint.
Author : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806121895
"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 coverage. In each case Baker comments about the town's founding, its former significance, and the reasons for its decline. There are maps and instructions for reaching each site and numerous photographs showing the past and present status of each. The contemporary photos were taken, in most instances, by Baker himself, who proves as adept a photographer as he is researcher and writer....Baker has done his work thoroughly and well, within limits imposed by necessity. He obviously had fun in the process and it shows in his prose."---New Mexico Historical Review
Author : Norman Crampton
Publisher : M. Evans
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 2002-11-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1461710669
For those looking to raise a family in a storybook American town, or a change of pace from hectic city life, this book is the answer.
Author : Kathleen E. St. Clair
Publisher :
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN :
Histories of little towns in Texas. Information about them in the area, the townspeople, how they got to be named " " and just lots of interesting information.
Author : John A. Jakle
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780820310749
Surveys the types of homes found in twenty American small towns, and discusses house plans, features, and structural forms
Author : Hollace Ava Weiner
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Jews
ISBN : 1584656220
An essay collection of lively written, lavishly illustrated, and well-documented narratives on the history and culture of Texas Jews.
Author : Justin Ford Kimball
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Dallas (Tex.)
ISBN :
Author : Jerzy Bański
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1000422380
The Routledge Handbook of Small Towns addresses the theoretical, methodical, and practical issues related to the development of small towns and neighbouring countryside. Small towns play a very important role in spatial structure by performing numerous significant developmental functions for rural areas. At the local scale, they act as engines for economic growth of rural regions and as a link in the system of connections between large urban centres and the countryside. The book addresses the role of small towns in the local development of regions in countries with different levels of development and economic systems, including those in Europe, Africa, South America, Asia, and Australia. Chapters address the functional structure of small towns, relations between small towns and rural areas, and the challenges of spatial planning in the context of shaping the development of small towns. Students and scholars of urban planning, urban geography, rural geography, political geography, historical geography, and population geography will learn about the role of small towns in the local development of countries representing different economic systems and developmental conditions.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Industries
ISBN :
Author : Tracy Daugherty
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250282349
*Pulitzer Prize Finalist* A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty. In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains’ keenest witness since Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner. Larry McMurtry: A Life traces his origins as one of the last American writers who had direct contact with this country’s pioneer traditions. It follows his astonishing career as bestselling novelist, Pulitzer-Prize winner, author of the beloved Lonesome Dove, Academy-Award winning screenwriter, public intellectual, and passionate bookseller. A sweeping and insightful look at a versatile, one-of-a-kind American writer, this book is a must-read for every Larry McMurtry fan.