Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Stan Hansen, G. William Miller, Kel Seliger, Mike Conaway, Charlotte Mailliard, A. P. Borger, Donny Anderson, Darlene Cates, Rik Bonness, Bill Dees, Blake Chanslor, Bill Bishop. Excerpt: Asa Phillip (Ace) Borger (April 12, 1888 August 31, 1934), the founder of Borger, Texas, was born to Phillip Borger and the former Minnie Ann West on a family farm near Carthage, Missouri . His father, a veterinarian, died when Borger was just six years old. He and his siblings were reared by their mother and grandmothers. Borger attended school in Carthage and graduated from business college. Sometime around 1907 he married classmate Elizabeth Willoughby. They spent their first years in a rented farmhouse near Carthage where Borger opened a lumber yard. The couple had three children. Borger began his career as a town promoter at the time of World War I . In 1915 Borger and his younger brother Lester Andrew, known as Pete Borger, sold land in Picher, Oklahoma, which was in the center of valuable lead and zinc deposits. In 1917 the Borgers, partnered with noted oilman Tom Slick, set up the oil town of Slick near Bristow, Oklahoma . At each town the Borgers and their associates opened hotels, gasoline stations, lumberyards, sold land, and pushed for the building of railroad lines to their towns. In 1922 they successfully started Cromwell, Oklahoma, as a boomtown. Though Borger and his family maintained a home for a short time in each of his new towns, he continued to use Carthage as his main base of operations. Borger soon became interested in the discovery of oil in the Texas Panhandle . Early in 1926 he purchased 240 acres (0.97 km ) in southern Hutchinson County from rancher John Frank Weatherly at a price of fifty dollars an acre. He then obtained a grant from Secretary of State of Texas...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Borger, Texas: Stan Hansen, G. William Miller, Kel Seliger, Mike Conaway, Charlotte Mailliard, A. P. Borger, Donny Anderson. To get started finding People from Borger, Texas: Stan Hansen, G. William Miller, Kel Seliger, Mike Conaway, Charlotte Mailliard, A. P. Borger, Donny Anderson, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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2010
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People from Borger, Texas: Stan Hansen, G. William Miller, Kel Seliger, Mike Conaway, Charlotte Mailliard, A. P. Borger, Donny Anderson
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Stan Hansen, G. William Miller, Kel Seliger, Mike Conaway, Charlotte Mailliard, A. P. Borger, Donny Anderson, Darlene Cates, Rik Bonness, Bill Dees, Blake Chanslor, Bill Bishop. Excerpt: Asa Phillip (Ace) Borger (April 12, 1888 August 31, 1934), the founder of Borger, Texas, was born to Phillip Borger and the former Minnie Ann West on a family farm near Carthage, Missouri . His father, a veterinarian, died when Borger was just six years old. He and his siblings were reared by their mother and grandmothers. Borger attended school in Carthage and graduated from business college. Sometime around 1907 he married classmate Elizabeth Willoughby. They spent their first years in a rented farmhouse near Carthage where Borger opened a lumber yard. The couple had three children. Borger began his career as a town promoter at the time of World War I . In 1915 Borger and his younger brother Lester Andrew, known as Pete Borger, sold land in Picher, Oklahoma, which was in the center of valuable lead and zinc deposits. In 1917 the Borgers, partnered with noted oilman Tom Slick, set up the oil town of Slick near Bristow, Oklahoma . At each town the Borgers and their associates opened hotels, gasoline stations, lumberyards, sold land, and pushed for the building of railroad lines to their towns. In 1922 they successfully started Cromwell, Oklahoma, as a boomtown. Though Borger and his family maintained a home for a short time in each of his new towns, he continued to use Carthage as his main base of operations. Borger soon became interested in the discovery of oil in the Texas Panhandle . Early in 1926 he purchased 240 acres (0.97 km ) in southern Hutchinson County from rancher John Frank Weatherly at a price of fifty dollars an acre. He then obtained a grant from Secretary of State of Texas...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Borger, Texas: Stan Hansen, G. William Miller, Kel Seliger, Mike Conaway, Charlotte Mailliard, A. P. Borger, Donny Anderson. To get started finding People from Borger, Texas: Stan Hansen, G. William Miller, Kel Seliger, Mike Conaway, Charlotte Mailliard, A. P. Borger, Donny Anderson, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.