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Miles and miles of Texas : 100 years of the Texas Highway Department / Carol Dawson, with Roger Allen Polson ; Geoff Appold, photo editor ; foreword by Willie Nelson.
- Title
- Miles and miles of Texas : 100 years of the Texas Highway Department / Carol Dawson, with Roger Allen Polson ; Geoff Appold, photo editor ; foreword by Willie Nelson.
- Author
- Dawson, Carol, 1951-
- Publication
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Additional Authors
- Polson, Roger Allen
- Description
- 407 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
- Summary
- 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, after 100 years of the Texas Highway Department, the state boasts over 80,000 miles of paved, state-maintained roads that accommodate more than 25 million vehicles. Sure to interest history enthusiasts and casual readers alike, decades of progress and turmoil, development and disaster, and politics and corruption come together once more in these pages, which tell the remarkable story of an infrastructure 100 years in the making.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Ferguson, James Edward, 1871-1944
- Texas. Department of Transportation > History
- Texas. Highway Department > History
- Texas. State Department of Highways and Public Transportation > History
- Highway departments > Texas > History
- Highway engineering > Political aspects > History. > Texas
- Texas > Politics and government > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-392) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Tracks, trails, mud, and money -- Out of the mud and into the mire : the Ferguson years -- "Fergusonism" -- The "Rock core of integrity" -- The wolves return -- War and peace -- The midcentury : Eisenhower's dream -- The 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s -- The quiet giant : the 1990s -- From 2001 to the centennial.
- ISBN
- 9781623494568
- 1623494567
- 9781623494575 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2016015905
- OCLC
- 946277517
- SCSB-11958262
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library