The Roads of Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Roads of Texas write by Mapsco, Inc. This book was released on 2008. The Roads of Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All the Roads of Texas from the interstates to the backroads. With a comprehensive index listing of 4,000 cities, towns and communities, this is the most complete and easy to read map publication for traveling the farm and county roads to the freeways and tollways in Texas.
Miles and Miles of Texas
Miles and Miles of Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miles and Miles of Texas write by Carol Dawson. This book was released on 2016-09-23. Miles and Miles of Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Backroads of Texas
Backroads of Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Backroads of Texas write by Gary Clark. This book was released on 2016-11-01. Backroads of Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discover the strange, sublime, and breathtaking sights of Texas with this illustrated guide featuring thirty backroad excursions. The second largest state in America, Texas is home to a vast array of hidden treasures waiting just off the beaten path. Backroads of Texas guides readers to intriguing sites, offbeat characters, and glorious landscapes that are typically missed by interstate travelers. Watch frenzied bats as they fly by the thousands from San Angelo’s Foster Road Bridge. Catch your breath as you drink in the majestic Guadalupe Mountains. Get ready for goosebumps when you spelunk into the shadowy depths of Inner Space Cavern. And try not to get spooked when you see the paranormal “ghost lights” near the eclectic town of Marfa. These off-road sights are what truly set the Lone Star State apart from its neighbors. Completely reimagined for a new generation of road-trip takers and explorers, Backroads of Texas is lavishly illustrated with photographs, maps, and vintage advertising of Texas’s many scenic, historic, and cultural attractions.
Texas Roads
Texas Roads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Texas Roads write by Cathy Bryant. This book was released on 2010-03. Texas Roads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dani Davis wants a place to call home. With quaint country charm, quirky residents, and business potential, Miller's Creek seems like the perfect place to start over. . .except for the cowboy who gives her a ride into town. Then malicious rumors and a devastating discovery propel her down a road she never expected to travel. Cowboy mayor Steve Miller is determined to rescue his dying hometown. When vandals threaten the downtown renovation, he can't help but suspect Dani whose strange behavior has become fodder for local gossips. Can Steve and Dani call a truce for a higher cause, and in the process help Dani discover the true meaning of home?
Trammel's Trace
Trammel's Trace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trammel's Trace write by Gary L. Pinkerton. This book was released on 2016-11-01. Trammel's Trace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Trammel’s Trace tells the story of a borderlands smuggler and an important passageway into early Texas. Trammel’s Trace, named for Nicholas Trammell, was the first route from the United States into the northern boundaries of Spanish Texas. From the Great Bend of the Red River it intersected with El Camino Real de los Tejas in Nacogdoches. By the early nineteenth century, Trammel’s Trace was largely a smuggler’s trail that delivered horses and contraband into the region. It was a microcosm of the migration, lawlessness, and conflict that defined the period. By the 1820s, as Mexico gained independence from Spain, smuggling declined as Anglo immigration became the primary use of the trail. Familiar names such as Sam Houston, David Crockett, and James Bowie joined throngs of immigrants making passage along Trammel’s Trace. Indeed, Nicholas Trammell opened trading posts on the Red River and near Nacogdoches, hoping to claim a piece of Austin’s new colony. Austin denied Trammell’s entry, however, fearing his poor reputation would usher in a new wave of smuggling and lawlessness. By 1826, Trammell was pushed out of Texas altogether and retreated back to Arkansas Even so, as author Gary L. Pinkerton concludes, Trammell was “more opportunist than outlaw and made the most of disorder.”
