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The weekly democratic statesman.
ISSN: 23313242 Year: 1871 Publisher: Austin, Texas : Statesman Publishing Company,


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The Austin weekly statesman.
ISSN: 23316527 Year: 1883 Publisher: Austin, Texas : Statesman Publishing Co.,


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The Austin dam disaster of 1900
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ISBN: 1439663890 Year: 2018 Publisher: Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing,

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"The Austin Dam Disaster of 1900 recreates the era of Gay Nineties Austin, then--as now--a city on the rise and on the make. In 1891, at the behest of ambitious city fathers, the little city of just 15,000 people gambled its future on a project of breathtaking size--a massive hidroelectric dam across the Colorado River. This book follows the epic construction project and the brief golden era of the pleasure resort at Lake McDonald. Though troubled and controversial from the get-go, the dam embodied all of Austin's dreams. Then, on Friday, April 6, 1900, it began to rain..."--

Roadside crosses in contemporary memorial culture
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ISBN: 157441433X 1433710331 1417515066 1574411500 9781417515066 9781433710339 9781574411508 9781574414332 Year: 2002 Publisher: Denton : University of North Texas Press,

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