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The Road to Spindletop: Economic Change in Texas, 18751901 (Texas History Series)

John S Spratt

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UPC:
9780292700307
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1970-01-01
Author:
John Stricklin Spratt
Language:
english
Edition:
2nd Printing
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This book is an economic history of Texas at the end of the nineteenth century. In 1875, Texas was an agrarian state with limited industry. A generation later, agriculture was heavily commercialized, thousands of miles of railroads carried people and goods around the state, and urban populations increased rapidly. Even before the Spindletop gusher that irrevocably changed the states future, Texas had already moved far from its days as a Mexican and American frontier.