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Author Williams, Rusty, 1948- author

Title The Red River Bridge War : a Texas-Oklahoma Border Battle / Rusty Williams
Edition First edition
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2016]
[Place of publication not identified] : Texas A & M University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Red River Valley books ; number four
Red River Valley books ; no. 4
Contents Introduction: Coarse-looking men -- Great sagacity and tact -- Mud to the axles -- An honest oilman -- The first casualty -- Cheese and sody crackers -- So much legal gobbledygook -- A layer of anger -- Midnight bulldozers -- Very much disturbed -- Ready to go killing -- Hold the fort -- If it takes all summer -- Cross another creek -- Put away the soldiers -- Epilogue: Historical markers
Summary At the beginning of America's Great Depression, Texas and Oklahoma armed up and went to war over a 75-cent toll bridge that connected their states across the Red River. It was a two-week affair marked by the presence of National Guardsmen with field artillery, Texas Rangers with itchy trigger fingers, angry mobs, Model T blockade runners, and even a costumed Native American peace delegation. Traffic backed up for miles, cutting off travel between the states. This conflict entertained newspaper readers nationwide during the summer of 1931, but the Red River Bridge War was a deadly serious affai
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Red River Bridge Controversy, 1931.
Transportation and state -- Oklahoma
Transportation and state -- Texas
Depressions -- 1929 -- Oklahoma
Depressions -- 1929 -- Texas
Depressions.
Red River Bridge Controversy, 1931 -- 1929
Transportation and state.
History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
History / United States / 20th Century.
Depressions
Economic history
Transportation and state
SUBJECT Toll bridges -- Red River (Tex.-La.)
Oklahoma -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Texas -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Oklahoma -- History, Military -- 20th century
Texas -- History, Military -- 20th century
Subject Oklahoma
Texas
United States -- Red River
Genre/Form Electronic books
Military history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1623494060
9781623494063
9781623494056
1623494052