Thurber Texas: The Life and Death of a Company Coal Town [Paperback]

John S. Spratt Sr. (Author), Harwood P. Hinton (Editor), T. Lindsay Baker (Foreword)

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JOHN S. SPRATT, SR. was a professor of economics at Southern Methodist University. He died in 1976.HARWOOD P. HINTON is professor emeritus of history at the University of Arizona and was one of the senior editors for the Handbook of Texas.T. LINDSAY BAKER is director of the W. K. Gordon Center for the Industrial History of Texas located in Thurber, Texas.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: State House Press; New edition edition (October 27, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933337001
• ISBN-13: 978-1933337005
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,261,947 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting look back in a time long gone, August 22, 1997

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This review is from: Thurber, Texas: The Life and Death of a Company Coal Town (Personal narratives of the West series) (Hardcover)

Thurber Texas included people from many countries that came to a small town in Texas for work and to make a better life for them selves.As the railroads need for coal went away the people also went away.This is a classic book that tells of a time past,a industry in decline,and the way of the company town.I am from this area and for many years I drove past the smoke stack near the interstate and wondered what it was and why it was there.This books reveals the history of this area and gives good insight into a way oif life gone forever.I can reccomend this book to history buffs and people from this area of Texas with the question "I wonder what that smoke stack is doing there?For history buffs a 9.8 out of a 1