History Ahead Stories Beyond the Texas Roadside Markers 1st Edition by Dan Utley, Cynthia Beeman ISBN 978-1603441513 1603441514

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ISBN 10:  1603441514

ISBN 13: 978-1603441513

Author:  Dan K. Utley, Cynthia J. Beeman
More than 13,000 historical markers line the roadsides of Texas, giving drivers a way to sample the stories of the past. But these markers tell only part of the story.

In History Ahead, Dan K. Utley and Cynthia J. Beeman introduce readers to the rich, colorful, and sometimes action-packed and humorous history behind the famous (Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers, The Big Bopper, and jazz great Charlie Christian) and the not-so-famous (Elmer “Lumpy” Kleb, Don Pedro Jaramillo, and Carl Morene, the “music man of Schulenburg”) who have left their marks on the history of Texas. They visit cotton gins, abandoned airfields, forgotten cemeteries, and former World War II alien detention camps to dig up the little-known and unsuspected narratives behind the text emblazoned on these markers.

Written in an anecdotal style that presents the cultural uniqueness and rich diversity of Texas history, History Ahead includes nineteen main stories, dozens of complementary sidebars, and many never-before-published historical and contemporary photographs.

History Ahead offers a rich array of local stories that interweave with the broader regional and national context, touching on themes of culture, art, music, technology, the environment, oil, aviation, and folklore, among other topics. Utley and Beeman have located these forgotten gems, polished them up to a high shine, and offered them along with convenient maps and directions to the marker sites.

Table of contents: 

Part One: A Texas Sense of Place
Part Two: Passing Through Texas
Part Three: Texans on the National Stage

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