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Breckenridge by Dulan D. Elder (2016, Trade Paperback)
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During 1920, it grew from around 1,500 to 30,000 people. The football stadium seated 8,500 in a town that, except for the brief boom, had around 6,000 residents. Breckenridge was a sleepy ranching and farming community in the rolling prairie of north central Texas when an oil boom hit.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherArcadia Publishing
ISBN-101467123897
ISBN-139781467123891
eBay Product ID (ePID)227751053
Product Key Features
Book TitleBreckenridge
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TopicUnited States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), People & Places / United States / General, Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional)
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Juvenile Nonfiction, Photography, History
AuthorDulan D. Elder
Book SeriesImages of America Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight0.7 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-935079
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal976.4/546
SynopsisBreckenridge was a sleepy ranching and farming community in the rolling prairie of north central Texas when an oil boom hit. During 1920, it grew from around 1,500 to 30,000 people. By some accounts, its population got as high as 50,000 in the mid-1920s, which would have made it the sixth-largest city in Texas. Pieces of the past remain in its 10-story "skyscraper," the YMCA, and other edifices constructed in the Roaring Twenties, many of which are documented in this volume. The football stadium seated 8,500 in a town that, except for the brief boom, had around 6,000 residents. Before home games, all highways through town were blocked off for parades and pep rallies; away games were broadcast live via phone at a drive-in theater. Even the street signs were green and white with the team colors--it was our town and our team.
LC Classification NumberF394.B78E43 2016
