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Author:T. Lindsay Baker
A Field Guide to American Windmills
Before the development of the first self-governing windmill, settlement of the upland areas of the American West was almost impossible. Windmills were needed to pump underground water to the surface. As soon as their design and manufacture had been perfected, the mills became the...- $95.00
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A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Glen Rose, Texas: Bypassed, Forgotten, and Preserved Volume 30
Located just west of the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex, the community of Glen Rose, on the banks of the spring-fed Paluxy River, has attracted people for a century and a half, not only for the shaded quiet of its streets and its historic structures, but...- $38.00
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Adobe Walls: The History and Archaeology of the 1874 Trading Post
In the spring of 1874 a handful of men and one women set out for the Texas Panhandle to seek their fortunes in the great buffalo hunt. Moving south to follow the herds, they intended to establish a trading post to serve the hunter,...- $29.95
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Adobe Walls: The History and Archeology of the 1874 Trading Post
In the spring of 1874 a handful of men and one women set out for the Texas Panhandle to seek their fortunes in the great buffalo hunt. Moving south to follow the herds, they intended to establish a trading post to serve the hunter,...- $49.95
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American Windmills: An Album of Historic Photographs
From the earliest days of European settlement, Americans have cherished the sight of a windmill--an instantly recognizable feature of the American landscape. Boasting nearly two hundred striking images, this book is the first devoted to photographs illustrating historic wind machines throughout North America.T. Lindsay...- $29.95
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Blades in the Sky: Windmilling Through the Eyes of B. H. Tex Burdick
No water ever tasted better than when it came up clear and cool from deep in the ground, its flow pulsing to the steady rhythm of the wind-driven pump. . . . Windmill men such as Tex Burdick and others described in Baker's narrative...- $20.00
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Building the Lone Star: An Illustrated Guide to Historic Sites
Author: T. Lindsay BakerISBN-10: 0890969795ISBN-13: 9780890969793Publisher: Texas A&M University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1986Pages: 356Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.84lbsSize: 11.06h x 8.30w x 0.75d- $29.95
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Confederate Guerrilla: The Civil War Memoir of Joseph M. Bailey
Joseph M. Bailey's memoir, Confederate Guerrilla, provides a unique perspective on the fighting that took place behind Union lines in Federal-occupied northwest Arkansas during and after the Civil War. This story--now published for the first time--will appeal to modern readers interested in the grassroots...- $34.95
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Eating Up Route 66: Foodways on America's Mother Road
From its designation in 1926 to the rise of the interstates nearly sixty years later, Route 66 was, in John Steinbeck's words, America's Mother Road, carrying countless travelers the 2,400 miles between Chicago and Los Angeles. Whoever they were--adventurous motorists or Dustbowl migrants, troops...- $34.95
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Gangster Tour of Texas
Bonnie and Clyde, Machine Gun Kelly, the Newton Boys, the Santa Claus Bank Robbers. . . . During the era of gangsters and organized crime, Texas hosted its fair share of guns and gambling, moonshine and morphine, ransom and robbery. The state's crime wave...- $29.95
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Ghost Towns of Texas
The indefatigable T. Lindsay Baker has now turned his enormous mental and physical energies to the subject and has brought to view - if not to life -eighty-six Texas ghost towns for the reader's pleasure. Baker lists three criteria for inclusion: tangible remains, public...- $26.95
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More Ghost Towns of Texas
There is something romantic yet harshly concrete about an abandoned town. Dreams, conflicts, and losses still haunt what remains, so it's no wonder we call these locales "ghost towns." A companion volume to his Ghost Towns of Texas, T. Lindsay Baker's More Ghost Towns...- $26.95
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More Ghost Towns of Texas
There is something romantic yet harshly concrete about an abandoned town. Dreams, conflicts, and losses still haunt what remains, so it's no wonder we call these locales "ghost towns." A companion volume to his Ghost Towns of Texas, T. Lindsay Baker's More Ghost Towns...- $34.95
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Portrait of Route 66: Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives
By the time Route 66 received its official numerical designation in 1926, picture postcards had become popular travel souvenirs. At the time, these postcards with colorful images served as advertisements for roadside businesses. While cherished by collectors, these postcard depictions do not always reflect...- $34.95
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The First Polish Americans: Silesian Settlements in Texas
This award-winning history was the first to provide a detailed and well-documented account of the first organized Polish immigrant communities in America. Author T. Lindsay Baker, who conducted some of his research while a Fulbright lecturer at the Technical University of Wrocaw, tells the...- $28.95
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The Wpa Oklahoma Slave Narratives
These are fascinating stories of the memories of ex-slaves, fourteen of which have never been published before. Although many African-Americans had relocated in Oklahoma after emancipation in 1865, some of the interviewees had been slaves of Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, or Creeks in the Indian...- $29.95
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