Title Miles and miles of Texas : 100 years of the Texas Highway Department / Carol Dawson and Roger Polson ; Geoff Appold, photo editor ; foreword by Willie Nelson

Edition First edition Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Tracks, trails, mud, and money -- Out of the mud and into the mire : the Ferguson years -- "Fergusonism" -- The "Rock core of integrity" -- The wolves return -- War and peace -- The midcentury : Eisenhower's dream -- The 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s -- The quiet giant : the 1990s -- From 2001 to the centennial Summary On the eve of its centennial, Carol Dawson and Roger Allen Polson present almost 100 years of history and never-before-seen photographs that track the development of the Texas Highway Department. An agency originally created "to get the farmer out of the mud," it has gone on to build the vast network of roads that now connects every corner of the state. When the Texas Highway Department (now called the Texas Department of Transportation or TxDOT) was created in 1917, there were only about 200,000 cars in Texas traveling on fewer than a thousand miles of paved roads. Today, after 100 years of t Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Ferguson, James Edward, 1871-1944. SUBJECT Ferguson, James Edward, 1871-1944 fast Subject Texas. State Department of Highways and Public Transportation -- History Texas. Highway Department -- History Texas. Department of Transportation -- History SUBJECT Texas. Department of Transportation fast Texas. Highway Department fast Texas. State Department of Highways and Public Transportation fast Subject Highway engineering -- Political aspects -- Texas -- History Highway departments -- Texas -- History History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) Transportation / Automotive / History. Business & Economics / Industries / Transportation. Highway departments Politics and government SUBJECT Texas -- Politics and government -- 20th century Subject Texas Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Polson, Roger Allen, author LC no. 2016015905 ISBN 1623494575 9781623494575

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