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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
[2016]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Tracks, trails, mud, and money -- Out of the mud and into the mire : the Ferguson years -- "Fergusonism" -- The "Rock core of integrity" -- The wolves return -- War and peace -- The midcentury : Eisenhower's dream -- The 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s -- The quiet giant : the 1990s -- From 2001 to the centennial. | |
| 520 | |a 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 t. | ||
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