Books written by T. Lindsay Baker

A Field Guide to American Windmills

Fort Worth , Texas : Texas Printing Co. , 1904. TxCaP - PHM Buchanan Windmill Company , Buchanan , Mich . The Improved Buchanan Windmill , Strongest and Most Durable Mill in the Market . Buchanan , Mich .: Buchanan Windmill Co. , ( ca.
Ghost Towns of Texas

Noah Smithwick purchased the old mill on Hamilton Creek from Wight and operated it for Mormon Mill Buchanan Reservoir BURNET 29 29 Colorado River 281 MORMON MILL o_ ! 0 1 2 3 4 1431 miles MARBLE FALLS 11431 Mormon Mill was the site of a ...
Adobe Walls: The History and Archaeology of the 1874 Trading Post

Edited by R. David Edmunds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980. TxCaP Haley, J. Evetts. "Jim East — Trail Hand and Cowboy." Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 4 ( 1931 ): 39-61. TxCaP Hamilton, Henry W., and Jean Tiree Hamilton ...
More Ghost Towns of Texas

Porter , Jack . “ For Knowledge and Character : Goodnight Baptist College Training Launched in 1898. ” Amarillo ( Tex . ) Sunday News- Globe , 14 August 1966 , sec . D , p . 16 . Porter , Millie Jones . Memory Cups of Panhandle Pioneers ...
American Windmills: An Album of Historic Photographs

The photos chosen for this book illustrate windmill manufacture, distribution, and use in all regions of the United States, with an emphasis on the Great Plains.
Gangster Tour of Texas

Steeped in solid historical research, including personal visits by the author to every site described in the book, this volume offers entertaining and informative insights into a particularly lawless period in our nation’s history.
Blades in the Sky: Windmilling Through the Eyes of B.H. "Tex" Burdick

From 1923 to 1942, Burdick photographed his men at work. Those photos, paired with Baker's text, shape Burdick's memories into a fascinating story.
Eating Up Route 66: Foodways on America’s Mother Road

N.Mex.; Oldham County, Oldham County Remembers, 23; Olsen, Route 66 Lost and Found, 222–23; Jim Ross and Shellee Graham, Secret Route 66: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure (St. Louis: Reedy Press, 2017), 4–5; Scott and Kelly, ...
Eating Up Route 66: Foodways on America’s Mother Road

82; Dennis Garrels, Then and Now: Macoupin County on Route 66 (Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2007), 11–95; Illinois: A Descriptive and Historical Guide, pp. 594–99; Loewen, Sundown Towns, 94–95, 158–61; ...
Portrait of Route 66: Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives

... Texas (1975) The First Polish Americans: Silesian Settlements in Texas (1979) Historia najstarszych polskich osad w ... Birth of a Texas Ghost Town: Thurber, 1886– 1933, by Mary Jane Gentry (2008) Gangster Tour of Texas (2011) Texas ...
Building the Lone Star: An Illustrated Guide to Historic Sites

Texas has changed a lot since the first European settlers arrived. Instead of bare prairies and unfordable creeks, there are now bridges, highways, buildings, and people who use them. Life...
The First Polish Americans: Silesian Settlements in Texas

An account of the ethnic Polish immigrants who left Upper Silesia, then part of Prussia, and settled in Texas in the 1850s. They formed the first organized Polish American communities in America.
The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives

8 Ben Lawson is listed in Oklahoma City directories as living at 714 Wisconsin Avenue with his wife , Hattie . ... He was the kinsfolks of Mr. Benjamin Love , and Mr. Henry Love what bring two big bunches of the Chickasaws out from ...
Confederate Guerrilla: The Civil War Memoir of Joseph M. Bailey

Joseph M. Bailey’s memoir, Confederate Guerrilla, provides a unique perspective on the fighting that took place behind Union lines in Federal-occupied northwest Arkansas during and after the Civil War.
Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life

Interviews with former Texas slaves describe how families were torn apart, harsh treatments by overseers, and daily life on a plantation
The Texas Red River Country: The Official Surveys of the Headwaters, 1876

ALSO OF INTEREST Wildlife and Man in Texas Environmental Change and Conservation Robin W. Doughty A compelling history of the use and conservation of wild animals in Texas that addresses concerns of historical ecology , environmental ...
Portrait of Route 66: Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives

... road as do travelers from the United States, with Air France Magazine declaring former U.S. Highway 66 to be “the largest openair museum in the world.” Many of the current Route 66 roadies collect postcards of the Mother Road the same ...
American Windmills: An Album of Historic Photographs

Presents nearly 180 striking images of historic windmills across North America, capturing the wind machines in a wide range of settings and uses and documenting both the construction of commercial machines and the innovative designs of ...