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Pioneer Surveyor Frontier Lawyer
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Author : O. W. Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Pioneer Surveyor Frontier Lawyer written by O. W. Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with categories.
Pioneer Surveyor Frontier Lawyer
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Author : Oscar Waldo Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Pioneer Surveyor Frontier Lawyer written by Oscar Waldo Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Frontier and pioneer life categories.
Located in Southwest Collection.
Pioneer Surveyor Frontier Lawyer
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Author : Carl Hertzog
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
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Pioneer Surveyor Frontier Lawyer
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Author : Oscar Waldo Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Pioneer Surveyor Frontier Lawyer written by Oscar Waldo Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Judges categories.
Pioneer Surveyor Frontier Lawyer
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Author : Oscar Waldo Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
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Harsh Country Hard Times
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Author : Janet Williams Pollard
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2011-09-01
Harsh Country Hard Times written by Janet Williams Pollard and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Clayton Wheat Williams—West Texas oilman, rancher, civic leader, veteran of the Great War, and avocational historian—was a risk taker, who both reflected and molded the history of his region. His life spanned a dynamic period in Texas history when automobiles replaced horse-drawn wagons, electricity replaced steam power in the oilfields, and barren and virtually worthless ranch land became valuable for the oil and gas under its surface. The setting for Williams’s story, like that of his father before him, is Fort Stockton in the rugged Trans-Pecos region of Texas. As a youngster accompanying his father on surveying trips through the land, and subsequently as a cadet at Texas A&M, he developed a toughness that served him well in France and Flanders. His letters home provide an unusually nuanced picture of what life was like for an American officer in Europe during the Great War. After the war, he returned home, where he taught himself petroleum geology—so effectively that he picked the site of what would become in 1928 the deepest producing oil well in the world. With his brother, he mapped the structure of what later became the Fort Stockton oil and gas field, and he went on to hammer out a successful career in the boom and bust cycles of the West Texas oil industry. On the civic front, Williams served for fourteen years as a Pecos County commissioner, and he held offices in a number of social and civic organizations. Imbued with a deep love for the history of his region, he wrote (with the editorial help of historian Ernest Wallace at Texas Tech University) Texas’ Last Frontier: Fort Stockton and the Trans-Pecos, 1861–1895, published by Texas A&M University Press in 1982. Nonetheless, by some of his neighbors he may be best remembered for his role in drying up the town’s famous Comanche Springs by pumping water feeding the spring’s aquifer to irrigate his and others’ farms west of town. Williams left behind a treasure trove of letters, personal papers and writings, and interviews with his family, helping document in rich detail the history of an unforgiving land as well as what life was like during a pivotal period of American history. These materials, which form the core of the present manuscript, reveal a life that made a difference in the economy and history of the region and the nation at large.
Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography P Z
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Author : Dan L. Thrapp
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1991-06-01
Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography P Z written by Dan L. Thrapp and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-06-01 with History categories.
Includes biographical information on 4,500 individuals associated with the frontier
Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography A F
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Author : Dan L. Thrapp
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1991-06-01
Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography A F written by Dan L. Thrapp and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-06-01 with History categories.
Includes biographical information on 4,500 individuals associated with the frontier
Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography G O
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Author : Dan L. Thrapp
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1991-08-01
Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography G O written by Dan L. Thrapp and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-08-01 with History categories.
Includes biographical information on 4,500 individuals associated with the frontier
The Texas Frontier And The Butterfield Overland Mail 1858 1861
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Author : Glen Sample Ely
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2016-03-04
The Texas Frontier And The Butterfield Overland Mail 1858 1861 written by Glen Sample Ely and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-04 with History categories.
This is the story of the antebellum frontier in Texas, from the Red River to El Paso, a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence. During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked at cross-purposes, their confused and contradictory policies leaving settlers on their own to deal with vigilantes, lynchings, raiding American Indians, and Anglo-American outlaws. Before the Civil War, the Texas frontier was a sectional transition zone where southern ideology clashed with western perspectives and where diverse cultures with differing worldviews collided. This is also the tale of the Butterfield Overland Mail, which carried passengers and mail west from St. Louis to San Francisco through Texas. While it operated, the transcontinental mail line intersected and influenced much of the region's frontier history. Through meticulous research, including visits to all the sites he describes, Glen Sample Ely uncovers the fascinating story of the Butterfield Overland Mail in Texas. Until the U.S. Army and Butterfield built West Texas’s infrastructure, the region’s primitive transportation network hampered its development. As Ely shows, the Overland Mail Company and the army jump-started growth, serving together as both the economic engine and the advance agent for European American settlement. Used by soldiers, emigrants, freighters, and stagecoaches, the Overland Mail Road was the nineteenth-century equivalent of the modern interstate highway system, stimulating passenger traffic, commercial freighting, and business. Although most of the action takes place within the Lone Star State, this is in many respects an American tale. The same concerns that challenged frontier residents confronted citizens across the country. Written in an engaging style that transports readers to the rowdy frontier and the bustle of the overland road, The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail offers a rare view of Texas’s antebellum past.