On The Road With Texas Highways

Author : Carol Dawson,Roger Allen Polson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623494568

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Miles and Miles of Texas by Carol Dawson,Roger Allen Polson Pdf

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 the Texas Highway Department, the state boasts over 80,000 miles of paved, state-maintained roads that accommodate more than 25 million vehicles. Sure to interest history enthusiasts and casual readers alike, decades of progress and turmoil, development and disaster, and politics and corruption come together once more in these pages, which tell the remarkable story of an infrastructure 100 years in the making.

Author : J. Griffis Smith,E. Dan Klepper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105212755123

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On the Road with Texas Highways by J. Griffis Smith,E. Dan Klepper Pdf

In a short line of Texas Highways distinguished photo editors, J. Griffis Smith has been described by a fellow photographer as a "galactic force," reveling in taking pictures of everything Texas wherever the magazine's assignments took him, all with the goal of inspiring "folks to travel." Celebrating the roaming life of a professional magazine photographer, Texas Highways has joined with Smith to assemble a collection of signature images from three decades of work, including memorable pictures of Texas icons, landscapes, people, and historical and cultural destinations. An essay by E. Dan Klepper conveys a sense of how photo editors have worked at Texas Highways and how Griff Smith's quirky, creative nature has helped to shape the magazine's style and message.

Author : Willie Nelson
Publisher : Harper Horizon
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780785241553

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Willie Nelson's Letters to America by Willie Nelson Pdf

Following his bestselling memoir, It’s a Long Story, Willie Nelson now delivers his most intimate thoughts and stories in Willie Nelson's Letters to America. A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller! From his opening letter “Dear America” to his “Dear Willie” epilogue, Willie digs deep into his heart and soul--and his music catalog--to lift us up in difficult times, and to remind us of the endless promise and continuous obligations of all Americans--to themselves, to one another, and to their nation. In a series of letters straight from the heart, Willie sends his thanks and his thoughts to: Americans past, present, and future, his closest family members, andhis parents, sister, and children, his other family members his guitar “Trigger”, his hero Gene Autry, the US founding fathers, his personal heroes, from our founding fathers to the leaders of future generations and to young songwriters as well as leaders of our future generations. Willie’s letters are rounded out with the moving lyrics to some of his most famous and insightful songs, including “Let Me Be a Man,” “Family Bible,” “Summer of Roses,” “Me and Paul,” “A Horse called Music,” “Healing Hands of Time,” and “Yesterday's Wine.”

Author : David Courtney,Jack Unruh
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781477312971

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The Texanist by David Courtney,Jack Unruh Pdf

A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Roads
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015880409

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Texas Highways by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1974-02
Category : Roads
ISBN : UIUC:30112087161326

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Texas Highways.(SERIAL). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010268519

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A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the South-western Frontier by Frederick Law Olmsted Pdf

Author : Gary Scharrer
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626346871

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Connecting Texas by Gary Scharrer Pdf

American roads are about destinations. They’re also about destiny. The evolution of the national system of roads in the United States is undeniably linked to our unique history and our past and future successes. Today’s roads are a long way from the Model T days, when bold early contractors used mules and Fresnos to build roads and bridges that literally helped people up out of the mud and across uncrossable rivers. Those primitive roads, developed back at the beginning of the twentieth century, link us to each other today. But that story didn’t happen over night. The legacy of the colorful contractors whose careers intersected with the influential Association of General Contractors provides the basis for Connecting Texas, which is rich in personal interviews and present-day and historic photographs. Gary Scharrer clearly captures the effect that good roads have had on the Texas (and national) economy. But this longtime reporter also weaves an informed and entertaining narrative that will put readers face-to-face with the inspirational and larger-than-life stories of the giants and everyday people who gave Texas a road system that is the envy of the country. Millions of us get into our vehicles every day to go to work, or school, or any number of other places in our daily lives. But the majority of us don’t think about the roads underneath us. We jump in our cars or trucks, and off we go. But what about the individuals and the hard work and grit that it took—and continues to take—to build and maintain these essential arteries? Most of us generally take it for granted that good roads and bridges are simply a guaranteed fact of everyday life. Reading Connecting Texas will change these perspectives forever. Gary Scharrer spent 43 years as a journalist before landing at the Associated General Contractors of Texas. His work on Connecting Texas reflects his longstanding interest in highway transportation.

Author : Texas. Highway Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Express highways
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034559281

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Illustrated Studies of Controlled Access Highways by Texas. Highway Department Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Roads
ISBN : UCAL:B3040687

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Texas Highways by Anonim Pdf

Author : Erik Slotboom,Oscar Slotboom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Express highways
ISBN : 0974160512

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Dallas-Fort Worth Freeways by Erik Slotboom,Oscar Slotboom Pdf

History of Dallas-Fort Worth freeways and associated landmarks and events

Author : Zac Crain
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781646050369

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I See You Big German by Zac Crain Pdf

In the 1990's, Dallas was a basketball wasteland. Luckily for the city, along came Dirk Nowitzki, a towering Würzburg, Germany native with a cool efficiency and the ability to basket shots from seemingly impossible angles. Nowitzki spent his entire 21-season NBA career with the Dallas Mavericks, the longest tenure of any one player with one team in the league's history, and led them to their first and only NBA championship, while being named a 14-time All-Star, a 12-time All-NBA Team member, and the first European player to receive the NBA's Most Valuable Player Award. Zac Crain, award-winning journalist for D Magazine who moved to Dallas the same year that Nowitzki began his career in the city, memorializes Nowitzki’s career through a lyric essay reminiscent of Hanif Abdurraqib's Go Ahead in the Rain that mixes with author's story with the basketball legend's, charting the highs and lows (and mostly highs) of the Mavs' all-time statistical leader’s career and what they mean to the city of Dallas and its now basketball-obsessed citizens.

Author : Xavier de Maistre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : French fiction
ISBN : UCAL:$B317768

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A Journey Round My Room by Xavier de Maistre Pdf

In 1790, Xavier de Maistre was 27 years old, and a soldier in the army of the Sardinian Kingdom, which covered swathes of modern-day Northern Italy and Southern France. He was placed under house-arrest in Turin for fighting an illegal duel. It was during the 42 days of his confinement here that he wrote the manuscript that would become Voyage autour de ma chambre. Inspired by the works of Laurence Sterne, with their digressive and colloquial style, de Maistre decided to make the most of his sentence by recording an exploration of the room as a travel journal. de Maistre’s book imbues the tour of his chamber with great mythology and grand scale. As he wanders the few steps that it takes to circumnavigate the space, his mind spins off into the ether. It parodies the travel journals of the eighteenth-century (such as A Voyage Around the World by Louis de Bougainville, 1771), and could be read today as an early take on the modern vogue for “psychogeography” — each tiny thing that he encounters sends de Maistre into rhapsodies, and mundane journeys become magnificent voyages.

Author : Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Roads
ISBN : UOM:39015023083630

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Texas Roads and Highways by Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council Pdf

Author : Ginger Strand
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292742109

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Killer on the Road by Ginger Strand Pdf

True crime meets cultural history in this story of how America’s interstate highway system opened a world of mobility and opportunity . . . for serial killers. Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet’s largest public work: the 42,795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Before the concrete was dry on the new roads, however, a specter began haunting them: the highway killer. He went by many names: the “Hitcher,” the “Freeway Killer,” the “Killer on the Road,” the “I-5 Strangler,” and the “Beltway Sniper.” Some of these criminals were imagined, but many were real. The nation’s murder rate shot up as its expressways were built. America became more violent and more mobile at the same time. Killer on the Road tells the entwined stories of America’s highways and its highway killers. There’s the hot-rodding juvenile delinquent who led the National Guard on a multistate manhunt; the wannabe highway patrolman who murdered hitchhiking coeds; the record promoter who preyed on “ghetto kids” in a city reshaped by freeways; the nondescript married man who stalked the interstates seeking women with car trouble; and the trucker who delivered death with his cargo. Thudding away behind these grisly crime sprees is the story of the interstates—how they were sold, how they were built, how they reshaped the nation—and how we came to equate them with violence. Through the stories of highway killers, we see how the “killer on the road,” like the train robber, the gangster, and the mobster, entered the cast of American outlaws, and how the freeway—conceived as a road to utopia—came to be feared as a highway to hell. “Strand . . . Explores the connection between America’s sprawling highway system and the pathology of the murderers who have made them a killing ground. . . . The grim stories of murder on the highway may do for road trips what Jaws did for surfing. An interesting detour into a true-crime niche.” ―Kirkus Reviews “Strand’s cross-threaded tales of drifters, stranded motorists, and madmen got its hooks into me. Reading Ms. Strand’s thoughtful book is like driving a Nash Rambler after midnight on a highway to hell.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times “A titillating, clever volume that mixes the sweeping sociological assertions of an urban-studies textbook with the chilling gore of true-crime stories.” —Bookforum “Ginger Strand is in possession of a sharp eye, a biting wit, a beguiling sense of fun—and a magnificent obsession.” —Bloomberg