Dallas

Dallas
Author: Patricia Evridge Hill
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0292779534
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From the ruthless deals of the Ewing clan on TV’s "Dallas" to the impeccable customer service of Neiman-Marcus, doing business has long been the hallmark of Dallas. Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, Dallas business leaders amassed unprecedented political power and civic influence, which remained largely unchallenged until the 1970s. In this innovative history, Patricia Evridge Hill explores the building of Dallas in the years before business interests rose to such prominence (1880 to 1940) and discovers that many groups contributed to the development of the modern city. In particular, she looks at the activities of organized labor, women’s groups, racial minorities, Populist and socialist radicals, and progressive reformers—all of whom competed and compromised with local business leaders in the decades before the Great Depression. This research challenges the popular view that business interests have always run Dallas and offers a historically accurate picture of the city’s development. The legacy of pluralism that Hill uncovers shows that Dallas can accommodate dissent and conflict as it moves toward a more inclusive public life. Dallas will be fascinating and important reading for all Texans, as well as for all students of urban development.

The Dallas Floodway Extension

The Dallas Floodway Extension
Author: United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1012
Release: 2009
Genre: Environmental impact statements
ISBN:
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The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858–1861

The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858–1861
Author: Glen Sample Ely
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2016-03-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0806154640
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This is the story of the antebellum frontier in Texas, from the Red River to El Paso, a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence. During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked at cross-purposes, their confused and contradictory policies leaving settlers on their own to deal with vigilantes, lynchings, raiding American Indians, and Anglo-American outlaws. Before the Civil War, the Texas frontier was a sectional transition zone where southern ideology clashed with western perspectives and where diverse cultures with differing worldviews collided. This is also the tale of the Butterfield Overland Mail, which carried passengers and mail west from St. Louis to San Francisco through Texas. While it operated, the transcontinental mail line intersected and influenced much of the region's frontier history. Through meticulous research, including visits to all the sites he describes, Glen Sample Ely uncovers the fascinating story of the Butterfield Overland Mail in Texas. Until the U.S. Army and Butterfield built West Texas’s infrastructure, the region’s primitive transportation network hampered its development. As Ely shows, the Overland Mail Company and the army jump-started growth, serving together as both the economic engine and the advance agent for European American settlement. Used by soldiers, emigrants, freighters, and stagecoaches, the Overland Mail Road was the nineteenth-century equivalent of the modern interstate highway system, stimulating passenger traffic, commercial freighting, and business. Although most of the action takes place within the Lone Star State, this is in many respects an American tale. The same concerns that challenged frontier residents confronted citizens across the country. Written in an engaging style that transports readers to the rowdy frontier and the bustle of the overland road, The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail offers a rare view of Texas’s antebellum past.

Texas Land Survey Maps for Dallas County

Texas Land Survey Maps for Dallas County
Author: Gregory A. Boyd J.D.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: Cemeteries
ISBN: 9781420351835
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220 pages with 53 maps An indispensable book for any researcher interested in Dallas County's history or land (or both), or its first landowners after Texas's Independence from Mexico. Each book in this series is laid out into multiple maps using a 6 mile high by 4 mile wide grid.This book contains 48 Survey maps laid out within this grid. Each Land Survey Map shows the boundaries of original parcels laid out over existing roads, railroads, waterways. These are shown as well as the original Survey-Name and the Abstract Number assigned by the Texas General Land Office to the instrument that gave ownership to that parcel. Here are a number of details about our Dallas County book . . . Supplemental Maps Included (in addition to the primary Survey Maps) . . . - Where Dallas County Lies Within the State (Map A) - Dallas County and its Surrounding Counties (Map B) - An Index Map showing where each of the Land Survey Maps are within Dallas County (Map C) - An Index Map that builds upon Map C and shows the community-center points in relationship to the county-grid (Map D) - An Index Map that builds upon Map C and shows cemeteries listed in the USGS database in relationship to the county-grid (Map E) Primary Indexes (apart from each Survey-Map's own index of survey-names) - An All-Name Index (alphabetical by last-name) for every person mentioned in the maps, utilizing both Texas General Land Office and Texas Railroad Commission data. - The Abstract Listing: this is where you find the real details behind each parcel of land.Items are listed by Abstract Number What Cities and Towns are in Dallas County, Texas (and in this book)? Addison, Arcadia Park, Audelia, Balch Springs, Bethard, Bethel, Bobwyn, Bouchard, Buckingham, Carrollton, Cedar Hill, Cedarview, Centerville, Cockrell Hill, Cole, Coppell, Dallas, Dalrock, DeSoto, Duncanville, Eagle Ford, Embree (historical), Estelle, Farmers Branch, Florence Hill, Fruitdale, Garland, Gifford, Glenn Heights, Grand Prairie, Gribble, Highland, Highland Park, Hutchins, Inwood, Irving, Kenwood, Kingswood, Kleberg, Lakeland Heights, Lakeview, Lancaster, Lawson, Ledbetter Hills, Liberty Grove, Meaders, Mesquite, Naaman, New Hope, Oak Cliff, Oldham, Patrick, Pleasant Run, Pleasant Valley, Rawlins, Red Bird Addition, Reinhardt, Richardson, River Oaks, Rose Hill, Rowlett, Rylie, Sachse, Sargent, Seagoville, Shady Grove, Shamrock, Shiloh, Sowers, Sunnyvale, Trinity Mills, Tripp, University Park, Westwood Park, White Rock, Wilmer, Woodland Hills, Zacha Junction