Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Utley, Dan K.

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

Beeman, Cynthia J.

Description

xii, 335 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map; 24 cm.

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, and lives commemorated by the words cast in metal on these wayside markers scattered across the Lone Star landscape. Also recounted in History along the Way are the stories of historic structures (from roadside architecture and elaborate West Texas hotels to university Old Mains and country schoolhouses of Gillespie County), engineering features (the Hidalgo Pumphouse in South Texas and the Rainbow Bridge in East Texas), and even town mascots (a jackrabbit, a mule, and a prairie dog). Accompanied by helpful maps, colorful photographs, and informative sidebars, History along the Way is guaranteed to inform, amuse, and intrigue. Every part of Texas gets a visit in this anthology of select sites, making it easy for travelers — both the armchair and touring varieties — to enjoy and learn about the fascinating nooks and crannies of history captured in all their variety by the roadside markers of Texas.

Series Statement

ATM travel guides

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• TAM travel guides

Subject

• Historical markers > Texas
• Texas > History
• Texas > History > Anecdotes
• Texas > Description and travel
• Texas > Biography

Genre/Form

• Anecdotes
• Biographies
• History
• Anecdotes.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 1603447695 (flexbound : alk. paper)
• 9781603447690 (flexbound : alk. paper)
• 1603448187 (e-book)
• 9781603448185 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2012013080

OCLC

• 783522448
• SCSB-11129520

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library