THEY LEFT NO MONUMENTS Bob Bowman 1975 Texana Texas History Lufkin Printing Co

Description: THEY LEFT NO MONUMENTS By Bob Bowman First Printing ~ 1975 Hardcover With Dust Jacket 103 Pages 6 1/4" X 9 1/4" Good condition. The cover is clean with no writing or markings. The pages have no writing, markings, tears or creases. The end papers and paste downs have no writing, markings, tears or creases. The dust jacket has no writing or markings. The price has been clipped from the front flap. There are some small tears around the edges of the dust jacket. FROM THE FRONT FLAP: In our quest for perfection, we in Texas have frequently shaped our heroes in a singular silhouette: tall, angular-jawed, successful, silver-tongued. But not all of those who left an imprint on Texas fitted the mold. William Goodrich Jones was a non-descript little banker, the son of a Galveston watchmaker. Yet, he fathered the forest conservation movement in Texas and probably saved the state's wood products industry from failure. Lyne Taliaferro Barret, a storekeeper from tiny Melrose, spent his savings and that of his wife trying to coax oil from the redland hills of Nacogdoches County. It wasn't until a century later that he was enthroned as the Texas oil industry's first wildcatter. The list of others who left their mark on East Texas - yet left no monuments - goes on and on. Bob Bowman, a veteran historian and writer, has put together a collection of these rare and unusual Texans in an anthology that is a fitting successor to his two previous books about Texas ghost towns.

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Location: Jasper, Texas

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