A Stake in the Prairie: Mesquite, Texas

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Book providing a narrative overview of Mesquite, Texas and the immediate area, including significant people and events as well as general history with images and references. Index starts on page 256.

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260 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

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Mesquite Historical Committee 1984.

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Book providing a narrative overview of Mesquite, Texas and the immediate area, including significant people and events as well as general history with images and references. Index starts on page 256.

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260 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

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Contents: Forward -- Introduction -- I. The Land and Its People -- II. Peters and Mercer Colonies -- III. Settlement of a Community and Coming of a Railroad -- IV. The New Town -- V. Mesquite, 1887-1905 -- VI. In Pursuit of Progress -- VII. The 1920s, A Time of Striving -- VIII. Mesquite in the 1930s -- IX. The War and Its Aftermath -- X. Boomtown, U.S.A. -- XI. The Sixties and beyond: Requiem for a Hamlet -- XII. Into the 1980s -- Appendix

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Mesquite Historical Committee. A Stake in the Prairie: Mesquite, Texas, book, 1984; Mesquite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1633062/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mesquite Public Library.

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