Oysters, Macaroni, and Beer: Thurber, Texas, and the Company Store
(Part of the Plains Histories Series)
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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"
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