The Big Thicket guidebook : exploring the backroads and history of southeast Texas /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Saratoga, Tex.] : Denton :
Big Thicket Association ; University of North Texas Press,
[2011]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Temple Big Thicket series ;
no. 6. |
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Table of Contents:
- Some east Texas history
- Introduction
- Meet the Big Thicket
- Geology of the Big Thicket
- The Indians
- G.T.T. : the pioneers
- Timbering the Big Thicket
- The blessed Trinity
- Some southeast Texas towns
- Batson, wildest of 'em all
- Beaumont: from sawdust town to bonanza city
- Out of a canebrake... Jasper, forest jewel
- Kountze, town with a sense of humor
- "Atascosito" becomes Liberty
- Saratoga, the heart!
- Silsbee, birthplace of industrial forests and conservation
- Sour Lake; springs versus oil
- Shootout in Woodville
- Roadside history of southeast Texas
- Tour 1 US 59: Houston to Lufkin
- Tour 2 TX 105: Cleveland to Beaumont
- Tour 3 FM 787: Cleveland via Saratoga to US 69
- Tour 4 FM 770: Raywood, Hull, Batson, Saratoga, old Hardin
- Tour 5 FM 326: Nome to Kountze
- Tour 6 TX 146: Liberty to Livingston
- Tour 7 US 90: Houston, Dayton (Trinity River Wildlife Refuge), Libeerty, Beaumont
- Tour 8 US 287: Corrigan, Chester, Woodville
- Tour 9 US 190: Livingston, Indian Village, Woodville, Jasper
- Tour 10 US 69-287: Beaumont to Woodville
- Tour 11 US 96, FM 92: Beaumont to Steinhagen Lake (west side)
- Tour 12 TX 63, RR 255: Jasper/Bevilport/old Zavala/Ebenezer/forks of the river
- Tour 13 Old Jasper/Beaumont highway
- Tour 14 US 190 and TX 87: Jasper/Newton/Orange
- Tour 15 Interstate 10: Orange, Beaumont, Sabine Pass, San Jacinto, Houston.