Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Thurber Texas: The Life and Death of a Company Coal Town

Thurber Texas: The Life and Death of a Company Coal Town

Hinton, Harwood P.
Baker, T. Lindsay
Spratt, John S.

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringRegional: South

ISBN10: 1933337001
ISBN13: 9781933337005
Publisher: TX A&m-McWhiney Foundation
Published: Apr 4 1986
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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 ways contrasted sharply with neighboring farm life.

John Spratt grew to manhood in Mingus, just three miles north of Thurber during the 1920s. His chronicle of the Thurber district is not only a nostalgic trip back in time but also a case study of the impact of technological change on one part of modern America.

Also in

Regional: South

View All