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The lonesome plains : death and revival on an American frontier
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ISBN: 1585449563 9781585449569 1585441821 9781585441822 Year: 2002 Volume: no. 7 Publisher: College Station : Texas A&M University Press,


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They called it the war effort : oral histories from World War II Orange, Texas
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ISBN: 128397214X 0876112599 Year: 2012 Publisher: Denton : Texas State Historical Association,

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Over the course of World War II, Orange, Texas's easternmost city, went from a sleepy southern town of 7,500 inhabitants to a bustling industrial city of 60,000. The bayou community on the Sabine became one of the nation's preeminent shipbuilding centers. In They Called It the War Effort, Louis Fairchild details the explosive transformation of his native city in the words of the people who lived through it. Some residents who lived in the town before the war speak of nostalgia for the time when Orange was a small, close-knit community and regret for the loss of social cohesivene

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