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Miles and miles of Texas : 100 years of the Texas Highway Department /

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 v...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Dawson, Carol, 1951- (Autor), Polson, Roger Allen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2016]
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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