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Thurber Texas
Spratt, John S.. Ed(S): Hinton, Harwood P.
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Paperback. The Thurber coal district sprang to life in the late 1880s in northern Erath County, Texas, some seventy miles west of Fort Worth. This chronicle of the Thurber district is not only a nostalgic trip back in time, but also a case study of the impact of technological change on one part of modern America. Editor(s): Hinton, Harwood P. Num Pages: 160 pages, 25 b&w photos, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; HBTB; HBTK; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 308.
The Thurber coal district sprang to life in the late 1880s in northern Erath County, Texas, some seventy miles west of Fort Worth. The mines were opened by the Texas and Pacific Coal Company to fuel the locomotives of it's railway, whose tracks crossed the state from Marshall to El Paso. The company also built the town of Thurber to service the mines. It then imported workers from distant points, eventually including some twenty nationalities, whose old country ways contrasted sharply with neighboring farm life. John Spratt grew to manhood in Mingus, just three miles north of Thurber during the ... Read more
The Thurber coal district sprang to life in the late 1880s in northern Erath County, Texas, some seventy miles west of Fort Worth. The mines were opened by the Texas and Pacific Coal Company to fuel the locomotives of it's railway, whose tracks crossed the state from Marshall to El Paso. The company also built the town of Thurber to service the mines. It then imported workers from distant points, eventually including some twenty nationalities, whose old country ways contrasted sharply with neighboring farm life. John Spratt grew to manhood in Mingus, just three miles north of Thurber during the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
McWhiney Foundation Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Abilene, United States
ISBN
9781933337005
SKU
V9781933337005
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About Spratt, John S.. Ed(S): Hinton, Harwood P.
JOHN S. SPRATT, SR. was a professor of economics at Southern Methodist University. He died in 1976. HARWOOD P. HINTON is professor emeritus of history at the University of Arizona and was one of the senior editors for the Handbook of Texas. T. LINDSAY BAKER is director of the W.K. Gordon Center for the Industrial History of Texas located in ... Read more
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