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Texas is a 1985 novel by American writer James A. Michener (1907–1997), based on the history of Texas.Characters include real and fictional characters spanning hundreds of years, such as explorers, Spanish colonists, American immigrants, German Texan settlers, ranchers, oil men, aristocrats, Chicanos, and others, all based on extensive historical research.
Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography (Cambridge UP, 1989), a major scholarly study; Wilson, Donald A. Logging and lumbering in Maine (Arcadia Publishing, 2001) online. Wood, Richard G. A History of Lumbering in Maine, 1820-1861 (U of Maine Press, 1971) Wynn, Graeme. "On the History of Lumbering in Northeastern America, 1820-1960."
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark 6: Turner-White-McGee House: June 19, 1979 : Off U.S. 96: Roganville: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark 7: US 190 Bridge at the Neches River: US 190 Bridge at the Neches River: October 10, 1996
Jenkins published his first book Recollections of Early Texas History the year he graduated from high school. He went on to become a well-known dealer in antiquarian books and documents, primarily of Texas history. Unlike many booksellers, he read much of what he bought and sold, resulting in his ten-volume Papers of the Texas Revolution. His ...
By 1843 the colony's expanding wheat crop threatened to exceed the capacity of the work force available to harvest it. Ridley gave much time to the problem of devising a mechanical method of harvesting the wheat and building a reaper based on a woodcut in John Claudius Loudon's An Encyclopaedia of Agriculture (3rd ed., London, 1835). In ...
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wood County, Texas. There are one district and nine individual properties listed on the National Register in the county. Two individually listed properties are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks while the district contains more.
The Reaper: A History of the Efforts of Those Who Justly May Be Said to Have Made Bread Cheap (New York: Greenberg, 1931), popular. Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Cyrus Hall McCormick and the reaper (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1909) online; Winder, Gordon M. (2016) [2013]. The American Reaper: Harvesting Networks and Technology, 1830–1910 ...
Fort Lancaster was established during the American colonization of Texas in the 19th century, [1] a process that began in the 1820s with the immigration of Anglo-Americans into Spanish, later Mexican, Texas. [2] In 1836, an Anglo-American-dominated Texas seceded from Mexico and became a republic that was annexed into the United States a decade ...