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Black Land, Red River: A Pictorial History of Grayson County, Texas [Hardcover] Sherrie S McLeRoy

from the ancient, rolling plains of prairie grass to the modern industries that call them home today, author Sherrie S McLeRoy chronicles the history of Grayson County, Texas in Black Land, Red River More than 270 photographs, many never before or only rarely published, help trace the story from the mammoth to computers They are all here: the settlers who fought to carve new homes from the rugged Red River frontier, the Indians whose ancestral hunting grounds they displaced, and the Victorian businessmen who made railroads, cotton, and cattle economic forces to be reckoned with Relive Babel on the Red, the heygomad days of Denisons birth at the hands of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad Visit the colleges that made Sherman the Athens of the South Help build the dam that tamed a river, and fly in the jets that once danced in the skies over Grayson County Black Land, Red River is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of North Texas