Title The birth of a Texas ghost town : Thurber, 1886-1933 / Mary Jane Gentry ; edited and with an introduction by T. Lindsay Baker ; foreword by Larry Gatlin.

Publication Info.	College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2008]
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Edition	1st ed.
Description	1 online resource (xl, 205 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; no. 22
	Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; no. 22.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191) and index.
Contents	Editor's Introduction: Mary Jane Gentry and Her History of Thurber xv -- Chapter 2 Coal and Brick 14 -- Chapter 3 Labor Difficulties 34 -- Chapter 4 Texas Pacific Mercantile & Manufacturing Company 75 -- Chapter 5 Living Conditions 95 -- Chapter 6 Recreation 113 -- Chapter 7 Foreign Population 128 -- Chapter 8 Abandonment 139.
Summary	Edited and with an introduction by T. Lindsay Baker; foreword by Larry Gatlin.
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Subject	Ghost towns -- Texas -- History.
	Ghost towns.
	Texas.
	History.
	Immigrants -- Texas -- Thurber -- Social life and customs.
	Immigrants.
	Texas -- Thurber.
	Manners and customs.
	Coal miners -- Texas -- Thurber -- History.
	Coal miners.
	Coal trade -- Texas -- Thurber -- History.
	Coal trade.
	Brick trade -- Texas -- Thurber -- History.
	Brick trade.
	Thurber (Tex.) -- History.
	Thurber (Tex.) -- Social life and customs.
	Thurber (Tex.) -- Ethnic relations.
	Thurber (Tex.) -- Economic conditions.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Added Author	Baker, T. Lindsay.
	Gatlin, Larry.
Other Form:	Print version: Gentry, Mary Jane, 1912-1996. Birth of a Texas ghost town. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007026465
ISBN	9781603443975 (electronic book)
	1603443975 (electronic book)
	9781585446292 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	1585446297 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

Title The birth of a Texas ghost town : Thurber, 1886-1933 / Mary Jane Gentry ; edited and with an introduction by T. Lindsay Baker ; foreword by Larry Gatlin.

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