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Miles and Miles of Texas: 100 Years of the Texas Highway Department
Carol Dawson
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Description for Miles and Miles of Texas: 100 Years of the Texas Highway Department
hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages, 147 colour, 247 black & white photographs, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JJ; HBJK; KNG; WGC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 36. Weight in Grams: 2018.
On the eve of its centennial, Carol Dawson and Roger Allen Polson present almost 100 years of history and never-before-seen photographs that track the development of the Texas Highway Department. An agency originally created to get the farmer out of the mud, it has gone on to build the vast network of roads that now connects every corner of the state.
When the Texas Highway Department (now called the Texas Department of Transportation or TxDOT) was created in 1917, there were only about 200,000 cars in Texas traveling on fewer than a thousand miles of paved roads. Today, ... Read more
On the eve of its centennial, Carol Dawson and Roger Allen Polson present almost 100 years of history and never-before-seen photographs that track the development of the Texas Highway Department. An agency originally created to get the farmer out of the mud, it has gone on to build the vast network of roads that now connects every corner of the state.
When the Texas Highway Department (now called the Texas Department of Transportation or TxDOT) was created in 1917, there were only about 200,000 cars in Texas traveling on fewer than a thousand miles of paved roads. Today, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781623494568
SKU
V9781623494568
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About Carol Dawson
Carol Dawson is an Austin-based writer and artist. She is the author of four novels and one book of non-fiction. She teaches writing workshops, was writer-in-residence at the College of Santa Fe, and is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. Roger Allen Polson is former executive assistant to the deputy executive director of the Texas Department of ... Read more
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