Birth of a Texas Ghost Town

"Written by the high school history teacher when she lived in San Angelo while working on her master of arts degree under Professor Walter Prescott Webb at the University of Texas, the "Gentry thesis," as it is called by historians of the region, tells the story of one of the best known of all the Texas ghost towns." "Now edited and with an introduction by T. Lindsay Baker, director of the W. K. Gordon Center for the Industrial History of Texas at Tarleton State University, Mary Jane Gentry's lively history of the rise and decline of a Texas coal town will provide a unique window into a bygone era in Texas history. Her narrative of rancorous labor disputes, corporate machinations, and the eventual shuttering of the plants and virtual disappearance of the once-thriving town will allow Thurber to live again, if only in the minds of her readers."--BOOK JACKET.Gentry, Mary Jane is the author of 'Birth of a Texas Ghost Town', published 2008 under ISBN 9781585446292 and ISBN 1585446297.