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Table of Contents:

• Prefaces / the editors
• Dallas: an introduction / Erik Jonsson
• Agri-business, manufacturing, and other industries / Walter J. Humann
• Mercantile life / Stanley Marcus
• Real estate development / Raymond D. Nasher
• Finance / W.W. Overton, Jr.
• Religion / Dr. Levi A. Olan
• Sports / Blackie Sherrod
• Education / Dr. Bill J. Priest
• The arts - fine and performing / Toni Beck
• Power and politics / A.C. Greene
• The city as symbol / Bill Porterfield
• Return of the natives / Evelyn Oppenheimer.

Contributors:

Oppenheimer, Evelyn, 1907-1998 , editor

Porterfield, Bill , editor

Jonsson, Erik, 1901-1995

Smith, Bob

Garza, Laura

Friends of the University of North Texas Libraries , donor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/dnr

Doubleday & Company, Inc. , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Texas County Histories Collection

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Porterfield, Bill — Autographs — Specimens

Dallas (Tex.) — History

Dallas (Tex.) — Social life and customs

Dallas (Tex.) — Description and travel

Dallas County (Tex.) — History

Dallas County (Tex.) — Social life and customs

Dallas County (Tex.) — Description and travel

Manners and customs

Travel

Texas — Dallas

Texas — Dallas County

Genres:

Printed books — United States — New York (State) — Garden City — 20th century

History

General Notes:

"First edition after the limited edition of 250 copies."
Porterfield's autograph presentation copy. Signed on half-title page.
Bound in publisher's tan cloth with gilt spine titles. Retains original dust jacket.
Purchased with funds provided by the Friends of the UNT Libraries.
4/82/7

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xvi, 267 pages, 3 unnumbered pages pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Call Numbers:

F394.D2 B66 1976

ISBNs:

0385114036
0385122314

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

76002811

OCLC Numbers:

2612940