HomeMy WebLinkAboutHugill on Transportation
The History of Transportation
in the Brazos Valley: people in
and cotton out~
Dr. Peter J. Hugill
Professor: Department of Geography &
Bush School International Affairs Program
History or Historical Geography?
· History as (rightly) a nationalist enterprise
· Problems at the boundaries of nations
· Four nations deeply involved in the history of Texas
· Ad eclining Spain and its su ccessor power. rvlexico.
attenlpting to retain control of the far reaches of its Enlpire
· A confident. expand ing Arl1erica for vl/hich cotton was th e
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· An Arl1erican settled Rep ublic of Texas afra id of its still
dangerous ne ighbor. rvlexico
· A Britain reinvented after the loss of the Anlerican cola nies
a s a trading and industrializing nation. its econonlic success
based on cotton textiles
· Historical Geography as integrative: trans-national
Refe rences
· Donald W. Meinig, 1961. Imperial Texas.
Austin: University of Texas Press
· Donald W. Meinig, 1993. The Shaping of
America. Volume 2. Continental America.
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1800-1867. New Haven: Yale University
Press
The three arterial lines of Texas
· Houston to San Antonio & West
· Hispanic San Antonio as the northern limit of
Spanish and Mexican penetration
· Anglo San Antonio as the fOl1 protecting the trail
to the California goldfields
· Houston (Galveston) to Dallas & North
· The Brazos Valley cotton region
· Dallas to San Antonio
· The (recent) Information Corridor (banks,
centers of government, universities, high-tech
manufacturing)
The Brazos River Basin
Transportation Development in
the Brazos River Valley
· 1. To Manchester, UK, via Galveston using
steamboats
· 2. To Manchester, UK, via Galveston using
the railroad
· 3. To New England via the US mid-section
using the railroad
· 4. Local elaborations--the brief age of the
cotton interurban
· 5. Local elaborations--the motor truck
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