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Thurber Texas: The Life and Death of a Company Coal Town
John S. Spratt Sr.
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| #1673934 in Books | 2005-10-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.20 x6.00l,.68 | File type: PDF | 160 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| The Texas of a Century Ago|By Eric Mayforth|Halfway between Fort Worth and Abilene on I-20, one can still see a smokestack at Thurber, a site that is nearly deserted today but that was a prodigious coal-producing company town a century ago. John Spratt was born in 1902 and was the son of the town doctor in nearby Mingus. This volume consists of his recollections of his childh|About the Author|
JOHN S. SPRATT, SR. was a professor of economics at Southern Methodist University. Spratt passed away in 1976.|| HARWOOD P. HINTON is professor emeritus of history at the University of Arizona and was one of the senior editors for the Ha
The Thurber coal district sprang to life in the late 1880s in northern Erath County, Texas, some seventy miles west of Fort Worth.
The mines were opened by the Texas & Pacific Coal Company to fuel the locomotives of its railway, whose tracks crossed the state from Marshall to El Paso. The company also built the town of Thurber to service the mines. It then imported workers from distant points, eventually including some twenty nationalities, whose old country...
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