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The Big Thicket Guidebook : Exploring the Backroads and History of Southeast Texas
Start your engines and follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocates-all as diverse as the Big Thicket itself. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and fro...
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Denton :
University of North Texas Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- GENERAL INTRODUCTION, by Pete Gunter; Part I. Some East Texas History; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Mett the Big Thicket; Chapter 3. Geology of the Big Thicket; Chapter 4. The Indians; Chapter 5. G.T.T. : The Pioneers; Chapter 6. Timbering the Big Thicket; Chapter 7. The Blessed Trinity; Part II. SOME SOUTHEAST TEXAS TOWNS; Chapter 1 Batson, Wildest of 'Em All!; Chapter 2 Beaumont: From Sawdust Town to Bonanza City; Chapter 3 Out of a Canebrake ... Jasper, Forest Jewel; Chapter 4 Kountze, Town with a Sense of Humor; Chapter 5 "Atascosito" Becomes Liberty; Chapter 6 Saratoga: the Heart!
- Chapter 7 Silsbee, Birthplace of Industrial Forests and ConservationChapter 8 Sour Lake: Springs Versus Oil; Chapter 9 Shootout in Woodville; Part III Roadside History of Southeast Texas; TOUR 1 US 59: HOUSTON TO LUFKIN; Section a. Houston to Cleveland; Section b. Cleveland to Livingston; Section c. Livingston to Lufkin; TOUR 1A Goodrich-Old Swartwout-Lake Livingston; TOUR 1B Livingston West to Indian Hill and Lake Livingston; TOUR 1C FM 350: Moscow to Onalaska and Lake Livingston; Tour 2 TX 105: CLEVELAND TO BEAUMONT; Section a. Cleveland to Saratoga Junction.
- Section b. Saratoga Junction to Sour LakeSection c. Sour Lake to Beaumont; TOUR 2A FM 321, FM 163, FM 1008: Tarkington Prairie to Dayton; TOUR 2B CR 2071, CR 2073: Loblolly Unit and Marysee Prairie; Tour 3 FM 787: CLEVELAND VIA SARATOGA TO US 69; Section a. Cleveland to Rye; Section b. Rye to Saratoga Junction; TOUR 3A Circle Tour Fuqua to Votaw; TOUR 3B Ghost Road-Bragg-Honey Island; TOUR 3C FM 1003: West Nona, Honey Island, Olive; Tour 4 FM 770: RAYWOOD, HULL, BATSON, SARATOGA, OLD HARDIN; Section a. Raywood to Batson; Section b. Batson to Saratoga; Section c. Saratoga to Old Hardin.
- TOUR 4A Lance Rosier Unit-Saratoga EntranceTOUR 4B The Bear Hunting Thicket; Tour 5 FM 326: NOME TO KOUNTZE; Section a. Nome to Sour Lake; Section b. Sour Lake to Little Rock; Section c. Old Hardin to Kountze; Tour 6 TX 146: LIBERTY TO LIVINGSTON; Section a. Liberty to Moss Hill; Section b. Moss Hill to Rye; Section c. Rye to Livingston; TOUR 6A FM 2610: Old Liberty-Nacogdoches Road, Drews Landing, Ace to Romayor; MENARD CREEK UNIT; TOUR 6B CR 2132: Old Concord Church to Daniel Ranch to Chain-O-Lakes; TOUR 6C FM 1011: Old Liberty Road, Atascosito.
- TOUR 7 US 90: HOUSTON, DAYTON (Trinity River Wildlife Refuge), LIBERTY, BEAUMONTTOUR 7A FM 563: Liberty to Moss Bluff to Eminence; TOUR 8 US 287: CORRIGAN, CHESTER, WOODVILLE; TOUR 8A FM 2097, FM 1745: CHESTER, PEACH TREE VILLAGE, FORT TERAN, COLMESNEIL, ROCKLAND, DOUCETTE, WOODVILLE; TOUR 9 US 190: LIVINGSTON, INDIAN VILLAGE, WOODVILLE, JASPER; Section A. Livingston to Woodville; Section B. Woodville to Jasper; TOUR 9A Big Sandy Loop to Dallardsville; TOUR 9B FM 943
- BIG SANDY UNIT (South End)-Segno-Kaiser Burnout; TOUR 10 US 69-287: BEAUMONT TO WOODVILLE.
- Section a. Beaumont to Kountze-BEAUMONT UNIT.