Bridges Over the Brazos
Author: Jon McConal
Publisher: TCU Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 087565312X
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Bridge Across the Brazos River
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce
Publisher:
Published: 1890
Total Pages: 1
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 1
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Historic Bridges of Milam County
Author: David Galbreath, Carolyn Temple, Lucile Estell and Joy Graham
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467124915
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Milam County, located in the heart of Central Texas, is home to 18 historic bridges that were constructed through the years to accommodate the growth of the county. One bridge, Worley Bridge, has been fully restored in a cooperative effort between Milam County and the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT). TXDOT is an important partner in the preservation of these historic structures. Its excellent and informative glossary is included in this volume to assist the serious student of historic bridges. Memories of some bridges will be preserved in a bridge park, which is being constructed in Rockdale. Other bridges simply stand in mute testimony to the passing of time and the changing of human needs and habits. This book tells the story of these bridges and their important role in our history.
The Legend of the Brazos Point Bridge
Goodbye to a River
Author: John Graves
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-11-10
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0307773353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.
Monitoring Scour Critical Bridges
Author: Beatrice E. Hunt
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 0309098343
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Unruly Waters
Author: Kenna Lang Archer
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0826355889
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Running more than 1,200 miles from headwaters in eastern New Mexico through the middle of Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River has frustrated developers for nearly two centuries. This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow. The vast majority of projects proposed or constructed in this watershed were failures, undone by the geology of the river as much as the cost of improvement. When developers erected locks, the river changed course. When they built large-scale dams, floodwaters overflowed the concrete rims. When they constructed levees, the soils collapsed. Yet lawmakers and laypeople, boosters and engineers continued to work toward improving the river and harnessing it for various uses. Through the plight of the Brazos River Archer illuminates the broader commentary on the efforts to tame this nation’s rivers as well as its historical perspectives on development and technology. The struggle to overcome nature, Archer notes, reflects a quintessentially American faith in technology.
Engineering and Contracting
Sandbars and Sternwheelers
Author: Pamela A. Puryear
Publisher:
Published: 2000-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781585440580
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nature never intended the Brazos River for navigation, but before the coming of the railroads Brazos steamboats were a necessary, if always erratic, form of transport. And there were men to meet the challenge. One captain, heedless of shallows, shoals, snags, and falls, boasted that he could tap a keg and run a boat four miles on the suds. Based on rich archival sources, this authoritative and entertaining book tells of the men and boats that braved the river from the earliest days to the late 1890s. Steamboat captains and plantation aristocrats, business tycoons and empire builders, mud clerks and river rats, all were obsessed with a single idea: to open the Brazos for steamboats from its headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico. The river was dredged and snags were removed, boats were designed with shallow draft, and boat owner, captain, and pilot (often one and the same) pitted their skills against the river. But the Brazos was recalcitrant. Seasonal rises silted in manmade channels and left behind new snags to catch the unwary. And as railroads inched their way across the state, the need for river transport dwindled. Railroad bridges across the Brazos finally created barriers that even a steamboat riding a "red rise" could not negotiate. By the turn of the century, the dauntless Brazos paddlewheelers were only a memory, but, even today, the dream dies hard along the river.
