01665cam a2200325 i 4500 623562990 TxAuBib 20090423120000.0 070321s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781931721745 1931721742 (OCoLC)67384094 TXKPL eng rda TXKPL TxAuBib rda Andrews, Michael. Historic Texas courthouses / by Michael Andrews with photography by Paul Hester and Lisa Hardaway. Albany, TX : Bright Sky Press, 2006. 275 pages. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier includes bibliographical references and index. There is no more eloquent expression of a civilization's economic progress and cultural maturity than its civic architecture. The historic courthouses of Texas testify to the independence and fortitude of a resolute people determined to wrench order out of the devastation of Civil War and to enforce justice on a frontier advanced beyond the reaches of law. During the late nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth--termed by author Michael Andrews "the Great Age of Texas Courthouses"--county courthouses rose as the predominant symbols of progress and stability, optimism and robust community pride. 20090423. Historic buildings Texas Pictorial works. Courthouses Texas Pictorial works. Texas History, Local. Hester, Paul. Hardaway, Lisa. TXKPL