Download or read book Thurber Texas written by John Stricklin Spratt and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birth of a Texas Ghost Town written by Mary Jane Gentry and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited and with an introduction by T. Lindsay Baker; foreword by Larry Gatlin.
Download or read book Thurber Texas written by John Stricklin Spratt and published by . This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thurber written by Deborah M. Liles and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a busy industrial town of nearly 10,000, Thurber now boasts a residency of less than 10. For approximately 50 years, from 1886 to 1936, migrants from the United States, Mexico, Russia, Britain, and Eastern and Western Europe mined bituminous coal, manufactured bricks, and provided the labor for all of the residual businesses in an entirely company-owned town. The rich history of Thurber includes big-city investors, Texas Rangers, labor unions, railroads, sports, opera, diversity, tragedy, triumph, and the everyday lives of men, women, and children.
Download or read book Thurber Texas written by John Stricklin Spratt and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Way of Work and a Way of Life written by Marilyn D. Rhinehart and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike elsewhere, however, the miners' success at Thurber was not fraught with violence and loss of life; furthermore, in the strike's aftermath good relations generally characterized employer/employee negotiations.
Download or read book The Birth of a Texas Ghost Town written by Mary Jane Gentry and published by Tarleton State University Sout. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 a valuable resource."--Southwestern Historical Quarterly "Gentry's work is full of anecdotes that give life to the community, and her story illuminates an important chapter in Texas history . . . Gentry's work should rekindle interest in Texas coal mining."--Journal of Southern History
Download or read book Thurber Texas an Abandoned Coal Field Town written by Willie M. Floyd and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Back Road to Thurber written by Leo S. Bielinski Ph. D. and published by . This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Back Road To Thurber, Leo Bielinski looks through the eyes of ethnic immigrants to tell the story of life in a Texas coal mining town. The story is based in part on actual events, and those who know Thurber, Texas, will recognize it immediately as the setting. In Bielinski's novel, Thurber becomes the stage upon which Italian, Polish, and other immigrants come face to face with the realities of life in America. Through flashbacks, The Back Road To Thurber covers the period from the late 19th to late 20th century - a tumultuous era of boom and bust for many towns like Thurber.
Download or read book Thurber Texas written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thurber Connection written by Leo S. Bielinski and published by . This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thurber Connection presents observations and interesting events from various sources and covers the spectrum of Thurber life. Particularly interesting in The Thurber Connection is Victor Lucadello's narration - an Italian immigrant miner's son who documents his growing up experiences in Thurber. When Thurber shut down, people moved on to different parts of the United States. And today there are thousands of people scattered all over the states who have ancestral ties to Thurber. This book will certainly give them some idea of what their forbears went through when they first went to work in Thurber, Texas, USA in the early 1900s. The book tries to "Set the Record Straight" on some of the misperceptions and license some writers take when writing of Thurber. This is important to ensure that "How Thurber was" is more significant than trying to imagine what "Thurber should have been like."
Download or read book Thurber the life and death of a Texas town written by Mary Jane Gentry and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghost Towns of Texas written by T. Lindsay Baker and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Download or read book Black Diamonds Black Gold written by Don Woodard and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The portrayal of the events, people, and company that created a boomtown and a rare glimpse into the wheelings and dealings of cattle barons, oil tycoons, and politicos on a truly Texas scale.
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Download or read book Thurber Mingus the Last of the Great Texas Frontiersmen A Love Story written by Merle Vines and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid and historical account of Thurber Mingus spans a century that starts shortly after Texas becomes the 28th state of the United States in 1845. At the age of 9 Thurber was captured by Kiowa Indians on the high plains of north Texas and was raised by them until the age of 17 when he returned to his own people. On reuniting with his white family Thurber became reacquainted and fell in love with Noodle Rising Star his half Comanche half-sister. Thurber and Noodle have a baby on the way before they are told of their family history. Noodle banishes Thurber from their home and thus begins his wandering adventures that stretch from the searing flats of south Texas to the frozen mountains of western Montana. Along the way he meets noteworthy characters such as Kiowa Chiefs Satanta and Satank, the Bigfoot, Moses Rose, John Wesley Hardin, William T. Sherman, Johnny Ringo, George Custer, Billy Bonney, Seth Bullock, Theodore Roosevelt, the Man from Mars, George Patton, Pancho Villa and other equally colorful personalities. The story of Thurber Mingus is a reminder of a time we shall never see again. His was a time before "bob-wahr," gasoline pumps and television. His was a time before interstate highways began slicing up the land, a time when a man was free to roam the mountains and the prairies on the back of a good horse, in search of a love lost.
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