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Waxahachie: Where Cotton Reigned King (TX) (Making of America)

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bought this book when I thought I was going to Waxahachie for a construction job. Read the book, but never went there. All the same, it's very interesting, because this town has a whole lot of history behind it, much like the town I'm from in Missouri. And, like my town, you probably wouldn't know how important Waxahachie was in it's hey day if you didn't do a little research. This book is a great guide to the past that Waxahachi has experienced. Like so many towns and cities that a person drives through, if you don't dig a little, you would never know about the great things that have happened there. And sometimes, like Waxahachie, Texas, there is a wealth of important history just beneath the surface. This book is the story of that history, and is done very well.

This is the second book from the Making of America Series that I've read. I must say it was far superior to the first one. Ms. Stott expertly mixes facts, pictures, personal experience, and anecdotes into a marvelous picture of Waxahachie. I could tell how much she enjoyed digging into the past of this fair community. I won't think of Waxahachie the same way next time I drive down her streets. The locusts plague, the tragedy of the native Americans, the excitment and wealth of the cotton age, and The Chautauqua Assembly - a rich history indeed. Great reading!!