Oysters, Macaroni, and Beer: Thurber, Texas, and the Company Store

by Gene Rhea Tucker

Book Overview

From 1894 to 1934, a span of forty years that saw its parent company go from coal mining to oil drilling, the Texas Pacific Mercantile and Manufacturing Company operated and managed the various commercial and service enterprises essential to life in Thurber, Texas. Thurber was a company town, wholly owned by the Texas and Pacific Coal Company, and the inhabitants viewed the "company store" with suspicion before and after unionization in 1903, believing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896727688
• ISBN13: 9780896727687
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"