Austin: An Illustrated History [Hardcover]

David C. Humphrey (Author), William W., Jr. Crawford (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 334 pages
• Publisher: American Historical Press (November 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892724235
• ISBN-13: 978-1892724236
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,309,883 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific history with excellent photos and drawings, July 14, 2001

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Philip Hamilton (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Austin, an Illustrated History (Hardcover)

If you want to see and read about Austin's history, this is the book for you. The book covers Austin's story from its inception in the late 1830s to the mid-1980s. Overall, I learned how Austin evolved into the city it now is.

Having just read Steven Saylor's "A Twist at the End" and visited the O. Henry Museum, I was most interested in Austin's history during the last two decades of the 19th century. Readers wanting to know more about other parts of the city's history will find that the text and graphical content puts each stage of Austin's development into a useful perspective.

I learned...and thoroughly enjoyed the process.