History along the way : stories beyond the Texas roadside markers / Dan K. Utley & Cynthia J. Beeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Utley, Dan K.

Contributor:

Beeman, Cynthia J.

Series:

TAM travel guides.

ATM travel guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical markers--Texas.

Historical markers.

Texas--Biography.

Texas.

Texas--Description and travel.

Texas--History--Anecdotes.

Texas--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Texans love stories, and the 15,000 roadside markers along the state's highways and byways testify to the abundance of tales to tell. History along the Way recounts the narratives behind and beyond more than one hundred Texas roadside markers. Peopled with colorful characters-a national leader of Camp Fire Girls, an army engineer who mapped the Republic of Texas frontier, a hunter of mammoth bones, a ragtime composer, civil rights leaders, and an iconic rock star, among others-the book gives readers an intriguing and expanded look at the details, challenges, a

Contents:

Texas originals

A chance encounter of the great procession

Sidebar: Dr. Sellards and the Malakoff Men

Sidebar: A good place to hunt

John Ben's critters

Sidebar: Standing for health

A life in ragged time

Sidebar: Maple leaf rag

Sidebar: Oakwood's founder

Turn east to Texas

Sidebar: The Abert context in the Texas Panhandle

Sidebar: Replacing historical markers

Illumined by truthful artistic ideals

Sidebar: El Paso High School

Her lonely way back home

Sidebar: Rainbow Bridge

The Texas cultural landscape

And the cars keep rolling by

Sidebar: East Mound Cemetery

Sidebar: Granbury's town square service station

"To have what we must'

Sidebar: Landmark schoolhouses of Gillespie County

A journey back to nature

Sidebar: The invasion of Lampasas County

Lift high the water

Sidebar: Dam, ditch, and aqueduct

The normal on Chautauqua Hill

Sidebar: Northcraft's San Marcos churches

Sidebar: Orlando Newton Hollingsworth

Sidebar: Remembering Old Main on Capitol Hill

History on the grounds

Sidebar: Capitol markers - the rest of the story

Sidebar: The littlest dreadnought

Texans reaching out

Justice is the corporate face of love

Sidebar: Christ Church Cathedral

A light on the path of wisdom

Sidebar: Fairly flying from Terrell to Dallas

Two generations striving for civil rights

Sidebar: Huston-Tillotson University

Sidebar: Wiley College

A citizen with work to do

Sidebar: Women first

Here I am in Palestine

Sidebar: From cotton field to factory

The three graves of Judge Baylor

Sidebar: A gift in the hour of need.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60344-818-7

OCLC:

829459905