35,000 days in Texas : a history of the Dallas News and its forbears /

35,000 days in Texas : a history of the Dallas News and its forbears /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Acheson, Sam Hanna, 1900-1972, author.
Imprint:	New York : The Macmillan Company, 1938.
Description:	xi pages, 3 leaves, 337 pages, 29 pages of plates : frontispiece, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Dallas morning news. Dallas morning news. Newspapers -- History. Newspapers. Texas -- History. Dallas (Tex.) -- History. Texas. Texas -- Dallas. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2143979

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Thirty-five thousand days in Texas
Other authors / contributors:	Taylor, J. J. (Newspaper editor), writer of introduction.
ISBN:	0837154286 9780837154282
Notes:	"First printing"--Title page verso. Plates are not numbered on each page but are numbered in the list of illustrations according to the numbering of the pages that they follow or precede. Includes bibliographical references (page 324) and index.
Other form:	Online version: Acheson, Sam Hanna, 1900-1972. 35,000 days in Texas. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1938 Online version: Acheson, Sam Hanna, 1900-1972. 35,000 days in Texas. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1938

Table of Contents:

Introduction / J. J. Taylor
Birth of "the old lady by the sea"
Texas enters the union
General Houston and "The Texas Almanac''
War, fire and straw paper
Reconstruction
Toward "The Dallas News"
Birth of "The Dallas Morning News"
The two fairs imbroglio
"This age of change"
The farmers' revolt
Politics and panic
Sound money and sounder morals
New world vision
Farewell to politics
The Galveston storm
Problems of a new century
"The scarlet woman"
Toward a city plan
The World War
Boom years
Facing the future.