Thurber Texas: The Life and Death of a Company Coal Town - John S. Spratt

Descriere Thurber Texas: The Life and Death of a Company Coal Town - John S. Spratt

The Thurber coal district sprang to life in the late 1880s in northern Erath County, Texas, some seventy miles west of Fort Worth. \nThe mines were opened by the Texas & Pacific Coal Company to fuel the locomotives of its railway, whose tracks crossed the state from Marshall to El Paso. The company also built the town of Thurber to service the mines. It then imported workers from distant points, eventually including some twenty nationalities, whose old country ways contrasted sharply with neighboring farm life. \n \nJohn Spratt grew to manhood in Mingus, just three miles north of Thurber during the 1920s. His chronicle of the Thurber district is not only a nostalgic trip back in time but also a case study of the impact of technological change on one part of modern America.\n

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Tx A&m-mcwhiney Foundation

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ENSTK

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9781933337005

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1

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