Author: Dan Worrall
Publisher: Dan Michael Worrall
ISBN: 0982599625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
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.
Pleasant Bend
Author: Dan Worrall
Publisher: Dan Michael Worrall
ISBN: 0982599625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Dan Michael Worrall
ISBN: 0982599625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
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
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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United States Official Postal Guide
Author: United States. Post Office Department
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Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Languages : en
Pages : 660
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The Mercantile Agency Special Edition of Bullinger's Postal and Shippers Guide for the United States and Canada
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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A B C Pathfinder Shipping and Mailing Guide ...
Author: New England Railway Publishing Company
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Guideline, Codes for Named Populated Places, Primary County Divisions, and Other Locational Entities of the United States
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Shippers' Guide for Fifty Thousand Express Offices and Railway Stations ...
Author: Adams Express Company
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Category : Express service
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Category : Express service
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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A Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States
Author: Henry Gannett
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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House documents
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Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Ohio Almanac and Handbook of Information
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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