Thurber, Texas: The Life and Death of a Company Coal Town (Personal narratives of the West series)

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The Thurber coal district sprang to life within 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, ultimately 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 all over the 1920s. His chronicle of the Thurber district is not just a nostalgic commute back in time but additionally a case study of the have an effect on of technological change on one a part of brand new The us.
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