Why Stop?: A Guide to Texas Roadside Historical Markers - Softcover

 
9781589797895: Why Stop?: A Guide to Texas Roadside Historical Markers
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1589797892 ISBN 13: 9781589797895
Verlag: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

This guide to more than 2,500 Texas roadside markers features historical events; famous and infamous Texans; origins of towns, churches, and organizations; battles, skirmishes, and gunfights; and settlers, pioneers, Indians, and outlaws. With the most up-to-date records available, this sixth edition includes more than 100 new historical roadside markers with the actual inscriptions. Handy and simple to use, it lists alphabetically the hundreds of cities and towns nearest the markers and pinpoints each marker with specific highway and mileage information. With this book, travelers relive the tragedies and triumphs of Lone Star history.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Betty Awbrey is a retired educator from San Antonio, Texas, and has been involved in educating gifted and bilingual children for thirty years. She continues her commitment to educating children through her volunteer work. She updates and expands each new edition of Why Stop? since the death of her father, Claude Dooley, a retired businessman and entrepreneur from Odessa, Texas, who compiled the original in 1978. Stuart Awbrey is retired from USAA and now spends much of his time gardening. He is an avid reader of Texas and American history. Betty and Stuart enjoy traveling and reside near Boerne, Texas.

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Verlag
Taylor Trade Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1589797892
ISBN 13 
9781589797895
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
6
Anzahl der Seiten
544
Herausgeber
Awbrey Betty Dooley, Awbrey Stuart
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
info@simonandschuster.nl

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