Pleasant Bend
Title | Pleasant Bend PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Worrall |
Publisher | Dan Michael Worrall |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0982599625 |
Today’s Greater Houston is a vast urban place. In the mid-nineteenth century, however, Houston was a small town – a dot in a vast frontier. Extant written histories of Houston largely confine themselves to the small area within the city limits of the day, leaving nearly forgotten the history of large rural areas that later fell beneath the city’s late twentieth century urban sprawl. One such area is that of upper Buffalo Bayou, extending westward from downtown Houston to Katy. European settlement here began at Piney Point in 1824, over a decade before Houston was founded. Ox wagons full of cotton traveled across a seemingly endless tallgrass prairie from the Brazos River east to Harrisburg (and later to Houston) along the San Felipe Trail, built in 1830. Also here, Texan families fled eastward during the Runaway Scrape of 1836, immigrant German settlers trekked westward to new farms along the north bank of the bayou in the 1840s, and newly freed African American families walked east toward Houston from Brazos plantations after Emancipation. Pioneer settlers operated farms, ranches and sawmills. Near present-day Shepherd Drive, Reconstruction-era cowboys assembled herds of longhorns and headed north along a southeastern branch of the Chisholm Trail. Little physical evidence remains today of this former frontier world.
United States Official Postal Guide
Title | United States Official Postal Guide PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 724 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Postal service |
ISBN |
United States Official Postal Guide
Title | United States Official Postal Guide PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Post Office Department |
Publisher | |
Pages | 660 |
Release | 1880 |
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The Mercantile Agency Special Edition of Bullinger's Postal and Shippers Guide for the United States and Canada
Title | The Mercantile Agency Special Edition of Bullinger's Postal and Shippers Guide for the United States and Canada PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 1883 |
Genre | Postal service |
ISBN |
A B C Pathfinder Shipping and Mailing Guide ...
Title | A B C Pathfinder Shipping and Mailing Guide ... PDF eBook |
Author | New England Railway Publishing Company |
Publisher | |
Pages | 992 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Postal service |
ISBN |
Guideline, Codes for Named Populated Places, Primary County Divisions, and Other Locational Entities of the United States
Title | Guideline, Codes for Named Populated Places, Primary County Divisions, and Other Locational Entities of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1052 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Cities and towns |
ISBN |
Shippers' Guide for Fifty Thousand Express Offices and Railway Stations ...
Title | Shippers' Guide for Fifty Thousand Express Offices and Railway Stations ... PDF eBook |
Author | Adams Express Company |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | Express service |
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