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Hardcover The Birth of a Texas Ghost Town: Thurber, 1886-1933 Book

ISBN: 1585446297

ISBN13: 9781585446292

The Birth of a Texas Ghost Town: Thurber, 1886-1933

(Part of the Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities Series)

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In its heyday, Thurber was home to coal miners and brick plant workers from Italy, Poland, and as many as fourteen other European nations, not to mention the many Mexican immigrants who came to the area. In this, her master's thesis, Mary Jane Gentry, who started the first grade in Thurber and graduated as valedictorian of its high school in 1930, records first-hand memories of the town's vibrant charm. Now edited and with an introduction by T. Lindsay...

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