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Snyder and Scurry County
- Title
- Snyder and Scurry County / Scurry County Museum.
- Publication
- Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., ©2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | F394.S69 S65 2012 | Off-site |
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- Scurry County Museum (Snyder, Tex.)
- Description
- 127 pages : chiefly illustrations, map, portraits; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Everything is bigger in Texas. From ranches that cover more acres of land than Rhode Island to 10-gallon hats, monster belt buckles, and heart-attack barbecue, even the most remote corners of the state are bold, proud, and full of character. Scurry County is one such place. Following trails blazed by Comanche chief Quanah Parker and the US Army, settlers began moving to this part of West Texas in the 1870s. The town of Snyder was founded as a trading post on Deep Creek, which was made famous when buffalo hunter J. Wright Mooar shot a white buffalo there in 1876. Believed to be sacred by many Native American tribes, white buffalo are rareonly one out of every 10 million. Like the white buffalo, the town of Snyder is an anomaly, a strange combination of tradition and transition. Families who have farmed and ranched here for generations live in close proximity to an increasing transient population of oil field workers, college students, engineers, and electricians. Cattle still graze where buffalo once roamed, but today, many of their former pastures are filled with futuristic wind turbines.--Amazon.com.
- Series Statement
- Images of America
- Uniform Title
- Images of America
- Subject
- Historic buildings > Texas > Snyder > Pictorial works
- Buildings
- Historic buildings
- Manners and customs
- Snyder (Tex.) > History > Pictorial works
- Snyder (Tex.) > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
- Snyder (Tex.) > Buildings, structures, etc. > Pictorial works
- Snyder (Tex.) > Biography > Pictorial works
- Scurry County (Tex.) > History, Local > Pictorial works
- Texas > Scurry County
- Texas > Snyder
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Local history.
- Pictorial works.
- Contents
- Buffalo days -- Snyder -- Churches -- Farms and ranches -- Reading, writing, arithmetic, and football -- Fighting Texans -- Boomtown -- Sparkle City -- Wild West Texas -- Epilogue: Then and now.
- ISBN
- 9780738596969
- 0738596965
- LCCN
- 2012950168
- OCLC
- ocn805050344
- SCSB-9418023
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library